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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 15, 13 October 1943, Page 6

Referring to post-war planning, Mr. C. V. Smith, president of Ibe New Zealand Manufacturers’ Federation, said in Napier yesterday that many simply dismiss the subject with the remark that: things will level themselves out somehow. “I would remind those people.” he continued, “that in the Just 30 years things

have levelled themselves out so well that we have had two world wars and a world depression, all of which brought death and suffering to millions. 1 am not going to suggest any solution for post-war world reconstruction. I have neither the ability nor the impertinence, but it is necessary that we in New Zealand should be taking an active part in planning for ourselves, even though there will be unknown problems that may alter o-ir schemes and will have to be faced. It will be too late if we wait till the war is over and find that others Lave done the planuing for us.”