SALVATION ARMY LEADER.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20091, 21 November 1930, Page 11

SALVATION ARMY LEADER.

A VISIT TO AUSTRALIA. (vurrjsD pees a association—fez iiuowf TXLIQItAPH—COPTJUOar.) (Beeeived November 20th, 9.50 p.m.) LONDON, November 19. General E. J. Higgins, Leader of the Salvation Army, will visit Australia im 1932, but the date is not y«t determined.

tinued rt would be very beneficial i© the manufacturers. Nobody should quarrel with his bread and batter. He had been impressed by the resource of the manufacturers. ''You are surely big enough to refrain from, making these threats of secession," he said. "They are too childish. I hope such suggestions will be left out of future discussions. They are going to be of no use to us." Some things were being accepted too readily. The countrv was in a position when it could not regard 'with equanimity a growing Government expenditure. *'We cannot any longer sit still and accept that position," lie said. "We must be unanimous in telling the Government that it must reduce expenditure. "I don't think we are at the bottom of this slump. I think we will go a whole twelve months before we reach it. This country will be much more sick in a year's time, • That is not pessimism. The index number for the prices of our primary produce is only just above pre-war prices, while wages and other costs are appallingly high." If this continued and nothing was done to prevent it going on, New. Zealand might find itself in an unenviable position. The country depended on the purchasing power of tho primary producers. If that was not a reason for standing shoulder to shoulder, instead of quarrelling, he knew of no reason why men and women should combine in a good iause. So far as the large work the two bodies had to do, the best feelings should exist between them, and each should support the other. !