More Team Work Needed In N.Z.

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 55, 14 June 1948, Page 5

More Team Work Needed In N.Z.

APPEAL FOK ALL FACTIONS’ HELP

“I would like to see representative people from different sections of the community in New Zealand get together and examine in a detached atmosphere how best we can get together as a team and sinking our differences get to work to use the natural resources and advantages of the Dominion to the best possible advantage of all the people in the Dominion,” said Mr A. P. O’Shea, general secretary of Federated

Farmers of N.Z. in a recent interview with the Beacon. “I believe if this were done, we could be particularly well off in the material sense, and we would be better off in every way, too, because if we could get to work with an object we would be a much happier people.” “There is no question that New Zealand is really better off than any other country I saw in my travels, with’ the possible exception of the United States. Manufactured goods are certainly better and cheaper in U.S.A. than they are in New Zealand, but butter which cost about 96 cents a lb. was virtually rationed. In the hotels and on the trains a traveller received a very small portion of butter, and one noted the difference in this respect as soon as one returned to the Dominion. Food prices were exceedingly high, and a leg of lamb cost s£dollars. New Zealand’s main advantage in regard to food is that there is plenty of milk and plenty of cheese which places us in a very favourable position as compared with other countries. There is no doubt that the New Zealand farmer is the most efficient primary producer in the world, if he is judged on the net. value of his production per acre and per man.”