Nicholas Hagen
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A CHEERY letter of good wishes is to hand from Mr. Nicholas Hagen of Noumea, well-known merchant and snip-owner, who was so very ill in Syd ney last year. He appears to have made a g° od recovery, to have settled down philosophically at his home in Noumea to await the outcome of a struggle in which all that we hold dear in our civilisation is at stake. The present spectacle of his well-loved France sad dens him; but he writes:— “There is one thing that cannot be lost That is the traditions of a past and it will be up to us, or the next generation, to remember this, and gradu ally rebuild.
I think that Australia’s condition and geo-economic position will remain un changed; but the mentality of the masses will have to be fashioned to meet the exigencies that not onlv will be imnosed, but imposed by droit devolve ”
Wise words!
Rev. F. J. Searle, of Lawes College (London Missionary Society), Fife Bay Papua, arrived in Sydney at the end of February on leave. When he completes his furlough, he will retire from the service of the LMS.