A GRAVE DANGER

Hokitika Guardian, 21 June 1932, Page 6

A GRAVE DANGER

RELIANCE! ON STATE

INDIVIDUAL EFFORT NEEDED

AUCKLAND, June 20

“Nothing would please me greater than to; see a niol ' e intelligent interest in national problems,” said the Gov-ernor-General,' Lord Bledisloe, when addressing the settlers of Waiuku. He feared there wife a danger of New Zealand coming to lean too much on the Government and on Government action, and putting too little stress on individual effort, such as the effort of the pioneers, which had put th e country where it was. Only individual effort pnd qo-operation would bring the ’country to prosperity. . The same view was expressed by his 'Excellency when replying to an address 'of welcome at Pukekobe. They were passing through difficult times, he said, but 'the surest way of pass':ng through was to maintain a cheerful outlook and a determination to do all m their power, by their own efforts, with not too. great a reliance upon Governments, and by the exercise of the pioneering spirit, to forge their vaj to the more ' P TOS P erous timod tliafc UI1 ‘ dqubted/ly lay ahead. The main source of the economic "wealth and prosperity of New Zealand was undoubtedly .the land, and it behoved everyone to do all in hit power to see that the man on the land, and perhaps more particularly the young people did not suffer permanently -or seriously as' a result of the depression. jf-V't-hey- displayed, a spirit oi resource and energy, always moving with the tiroes and meeting the demands of their overseas customers, they would accomplish their’task ensure a .-heritage for those who came after them.

“If at present produce prices are low, and we know that in most respects they are woefully low,” sa'd his Excellency, “it is du e .to the fact that our chief customers have not sufficient money in their pocket!-. Those customers are the working men in British factories. It is op us f° patronise and purchase the goods made in those factories and put more money in our customers’ pockets.”