AUSTRALIA’S TROUBLES

Hokitika Guardian, 23 August 1930, Page 7

AUSTRALIA’S TROUBLES

AN ENGLISHMAN’S VIEW. AUCKLAND, Aug. 19. “Australia will not emerge from her present self-made troubles until her people yield to the discipline of the circumstances they have themselves created,” sad Mr Guyton Butler, of England, who arrived in Auckland today by the Ulimaroa, “They must come into lino with the rest of the world,” he added. Australian {industry needs perspective, and a proper sense of proportion. Factors of distance, lack of close and constant contact with real competition, lack of real unity in purposes of achievement have contributed greatly to Australia’s present weakness. No country on earth need fear Australian competition in the purely industrial sphere, but she will always find buyers for her primary products so long «us she likes to continue penalising ;her own people in order that her industrial competitors may buy her goods cheaply. “At present the Government is the greatest industry in Australia, and until and unlees the people realise that business must come first, they will remain out of joint with modern commercial conditions. The capacity of ; the Australian people to put their house in order is undoubted, hut incentive is still lacking. A long and painful yet salutary experience lies ahead of Australia. When she realises that she has to go through with it she will not flinch, but when she is through the other nations of the world will have to take her very seriously indeed.”