PREMIER’S MOTTO

Hokitika Guardian, 22 January 1931, Page 4

PREMIER’S MOTTO

A CALL TO BE CHEERFUL,

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, January ?i

“As long as I am Prime Minister of tliis Dominion, no payment will be made unless work is given for it,” declared Mr G. W. Forbes at a welcome borne tendered to him by members of the Wellington Commercial Travellers’ and Warehousemen’s Association this afternoon. Afr Forbes said that he had been asked at Home what New Zealand was doing ing the making of provision for the people who are out to endeavour, at all costs, to avoid the dole system, as it had a most pernicious effect. New Zealand he said, had been called “God’s Own Country,” and they did not want to spoil it. He continued that no one wanted to take a pessi mistic view. If they could adopt a cheerful outlook, it would help them to square their shoulders and tackle any difficulties they might have to face. Any nation ifelt all the better for having faced difficult periods. It strengthened its muscle and fibre. The Dominion had enjoyed a prosperous era, and now it had to come down to lower prices. If all pulled together, they would be much better than those nations who reckoned that the bottom had dropped out of the universe,