BETTER TIMES AHEAD.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19141, 26 October 1927, Page 10

BETTER TIMES AHEAD.

FINANCIAL PROSPECTS BRIGHTER. (HIES 9 ASSOCIATION I'ELEORAU.) WELLINGTON, October 25. 'Tor some little time we have.been passing through a period of depression. We can't shut our eyes to that fact, but the indications now.point to Abetter times ahead, and/ indeed, to a brighter future than has been the case for many years past. There is every indication of improved prosperity, and it only remains for the people of this country to take full advantage of the improved conditions, and in a very short time we will have prosperous days with us once again," said the Prime Minister (Mr Coates) to-night at the opening of the Pageant of Industries in the Town Hall. Their aims, he thought, should be in the first place to purchase goods made, in New Zealand, and, second,-to purchase British goods whenever New Zealandmade goods were not available.' "It occurred to me," he-said, "that if we can get our children to talk New Zealand-made goods and to foster New Zealand-made goods in every direction, then it is only a matter of from eight to ten years when that practice will be a general one, and our industries will be given the encouragement they should have."