"WAKE UP, NEW PLYMOUTH!"

Taranaki Daily News, 13 December 1918, Page 8

"WAKE UP, NEW PLYMOUTH!"

A SOLDIER'S LETTER. FUTURE OF N'EW ZEALAND COMMERCE. Mr. C. Carter lias received a lon™ and interesting letter, written on September 20, irom his son Edgar, wild, after ur«mg his own folk, and, incidentally, _\ T evt Zealanders generally, to be cheery and to look on the bright side of things, says:—"We are winning, and no doubt you people, like ourselves, have been greatly excited at the two overwhelming victories we have had—in Palestine, also in the retreat of the Bulgarians. No doubt, the tide of the big war has changed. Either luck, or right, is coming our way. ... The might of the German nation is having a bad time, ana right is coming out on top. . . .This war has been a blessing to Britain in many ways, and never will a nation come out stronger in the finish than we will. It has cemented the whole Empire. . . . The future ii> th? thin;; tn look to. New Zealand has bean mark. fd AI as a fighting unit, and it is up to to now make New Zealand AI in the commercial world. As h large amount of hpw country is to be opened up by tte Stratford Main Trunk line, and if Kew Plymouth is to be the port, slvj must wake up or other places will gev in and she will be left. Now is not the time for sleeping, tout to be up and doing" Speaking of the work of the. New Zealanders in France, he says:— ''There is not another division in France whi"h has had such a continuous time in the line. Since last November it has not been out of it. and, when it has been supposed to come out for a rest, is training for a stunt—that is th? only rest the men pet. , . .' "Referring to the "dose" Being prepared for the Germans, he says:—"Let the German-, see. some of the town-, on the Rhine a heap of ruins is all we want. It ought to be. as the French say, "A town'for a town' The efl'ect of the air reprisals has left a bad taste in his month, end mads him squeak enough to throw up the whole husine?;? "