Untitled

Hokitika Guardian, 8 November 1927, Page 2

Tlie Dominion lias had two lessons in the last seven years in the consequences that follow too hearty a celebration of improved economic conditions, and lie would bo over-optimistic who would say that the coming recovery, of which they are many signs, will not be celebrated in the usual way. But it is not too optimistic to think that the folly of over-consump-tion is now 1 letter and more gene Dally realised than it used to be. One may hope, also, that the need for greater production is more widely understood. But it is not understood, or is _ at least not recognised in a practical wav, by our Parliament. It is astonishing that in a country situated as New Zealand is—dependent for its life, almost upon its exports or primary produce—national police s iou < not "put first and foremost the encouragement of prituiry production and of the primary producer 1 ><- Dominion cannot expect settled • stable prosperity until all o lei nomic consideration give way to thi .. Christchurch “Press.”

It is quite evident to the people of the distant Dominions that as yet and probably for a long time to come the ships of the Navy, assisted no doubt bv aviation, are the main defence ot the British Empire. New Zealand has demonstrated that beliet quite lately l,v contributing substantially to tin building of the Singapore base, and while the Empire’s naval policy—as exhibited in the building of that base remains as it is, there will not be any great danger of the Senior Service hej„g neglected. The geographical position of the Empire’s far-flung component parts, separated by wide stretches of ocean, necessities its dependence on sea power. That sea power may be enhanced by the co-operation of am power, but the latter is as yet an auxi - inn- of the former, and has in no sense superseded the Navy.—Nelson “ Evening Mail.”