NATIONAL ANTHEMS.
Sir-Can you give me any reason why there seems to be an attempt to make." There Will Always Be An England" into a national song to be sung in schools? We have two National Anthems: surely they should suffice. Yet it appears that a number of our people seem almost ashamed of them. Why should not the Education Department circularise all schools and give instructions that both our National Anthems be sung before school starts every morning. Let the Department give a lead, and let the children learn to sing our National Anthems with all their might, and away with this other nonsense,
A LISTENER
(Tutira).
(" God Save the King" is our only National Anthem.-
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 60, 16 August 1940, Page 5
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117NATIONAL ANTHEMS. New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 60, 16 August 1940, Page 5
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