VISITOR’S OPINION

Hokitika Guardian, 23 October 1931, Page 2

VISITOR’S OPINION

GREAT DEMAND ALWAYS EXISTS. AUCKLAND, October 21. ■'The present situation calls for mtyi of vision and courage,” said Mr E. A. Beverley, ttianag.ng director of the Texas company, Australia, who arrived in Auckland by the Niagara from Sydney. ‘‘Twelve months ago practically all businesses were in a prosperous state. To-day such is not the case. Yet a great many men seem to forgot that crises have become before and the poeple have triumphed and prosperity has come again.

“In tones of depression," continued Mr Byveriev, “a great number of bus - ness men seem to forget that the populations must be fed, that millions of families must still bay food and drink; men ami women must have clothes ; school eh Idrcn, too. must he equipped ; industry must go on with its demand for materials of all kinds ; coal must be dug from the earth ; motor-cars and trucks in hundreds of thousands must continue to run ; petrol and oil must bp consumed, and tyres must wear out. Am list all the widespread upheaval, a great demand lias stid to be nut. Ih ■ great (lunger is that depression can become a disease called repression, whereby the community, badly directed, w.ll, through fear of the future, cease to spend that normal proportion of its earnings on the things of life which it needs, and which it is, even under present circumstances, -able to afford. ■'There are two classes of business men to-day. One says things couldn’t be worse, and the other says things might be worse. The latter class Has taken its coat off, and ;s working three times harder tli.m ■ v r n do! before, and what is more u e- Mi a: o mits.

These men have faith in me iniim .luuc future. They know that pu-penty is coming again. All the signs to the fact that it is even rinser than we think.

"Then let us not huddle together in doom," added Mr Beverley, ‘waiting for prosperity to come. Let us consolidate our forces and go out to meet it.”