A GRAVE POSITION

Hokitika Guardian, 15 April 1930, Page 2

A GRAVE POSITION

PREMIER BA A’IN’S WARNING

(Australian Press Association.)

(Received this day at 8 a.m.) SYDNEY, Apri, U

Speaking on the seriousness of the economic situation to-niglit, in Sydney 'lown Hall, Premier Bavin insisted that there must be a reduction in costs of production. Every class must work harder and take less. It is not a. question of doing this at tlie expense of the wage earners alone. Everybody must do bis hit/ business men professional men, oven the man who lived by rents must take less. How could the country possibly continue to pay the same wages or business profits or other reward, when the national income had been depleted by seventy or eighty millions

sterling. Air Bavin declared it was no time for party politics. Any man who sought to make party political capital out of the- misery and suffering of thousands of his lellowmer and women, would he guilty ol gross treachery, and no man could po.-sP:l\ be honest and say pleasant tilings about the economic condition ol tliis country 'at the present moment.