THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.
PESSIMISM OR OPTIMISM. “The words ‘pessimism’ and ‘optima jam’ are being freely used to-day, and I would like to say this:—lf a pessimist is a man who says that all is lost, that the Empire is breaking up and that New Zealand must settle down into a peasant community, than we in the Chamber of Commerce are not pessimists. If an optimist is a man who says the slump is nearly over and prices will soon soar and that all we have to clo is to sit tight and do nothing but wait for the recovery, then we are not optimists.
“Wo are pessimistic enough to say that wo are in temporary difficulties caused by our products realising lower money values and that everybody must help in the adjustment; and yet optimistic enough to feel that, although the position is bad, it might he worse; that it can certainly be tided over if everybody helps; that conditions will improve fairly soon and that eventually New Zealand will not suffer any real diminution in her standard of living, but rather the reverse. —President Canterbury Chamber of Commerce.
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 March 1931, Page 4
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190THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 21 March 1931, Page 4
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