A TRIBUTE

Hokitika Guardian, 5 July 1932, Page 3

A TRIBUTE

TO NEW ZEALAND... ... y, . y,, .. y . LONDON, June 20, ... In a recent address Horn Mr Runei-• man speaking at an Empire gathering described . New ' Zealand as “part of . ourselves,” Had it not been for the of the meat trade New 1 Zealand’s wealth, population, and prosperity would have been far below, its -preseiit-vlevel~'aH«L>4>lioswi , connected with New Zealand had reason to be grateful to the investors .who' made the- carriage- of carcase® -round the world a possibility, also to 'the enterprising commercial men who risk--ed their money in .the days when success had not. been proved, as wel) as to the men of science, forethought and adventure.. New Zealand was ven proud of its identity, and rightly sort He hoped it was - also proud of the ■ race from which its population jiiid been drawn. There were ninny people north of Britain who regarded' New Zealand as a p:ov'nee of Scotland—(laughter)—and a great many •'•rtf th'e*itvrelatives who left S'-otlnnd in '-tindays gone by and had settled in New Zealand mine Homo far) too seldom It was the habit of Scotsmen ' oric'ff they had left their own country to leave it for good; they had had the enormous advantage of taking with them a British atmosphere.

The chairman’s advice that we should serve ourselves fust was very, good advice, continued Mr Runciman, and one of tlicr best ways of doing that war by serving others at the some' time. • One of the advantages the Br’tisli Empire had given to tlie human race was that throughout its history the Motile' Country had done all in her power to render service to mankind. “We. are prepared,” he went -on. “to encourage trade with ary country provided that they give us a chance. It is became the Dominions are, giving -us u greater chance than any other countries that our hearts are .op-ur t< them. Our legislation is devised in tlie'r interest, and we shall gii to the Conference Ottawa detenu’ned to dc everything we can to dovetail ’ thos< interests for tlie future. One-third of our population is concerned in our foreign trade. We are most anxious that foreign trade shall, not. suffer But if foreign countries are not prepared to accept our goods, ’if’they insist on the payment of our War debts and will not accept payment- "in pro duce,-what aive we to do hut turn to other parts of the world where there is more generous feeling? GOODS AND SERVICE, “We shall go to Ottawa determined to do everything we can to dovetni' those interests for the future. Gold indigestion is not good for tlie solving of industrial problems. Payments must he made in goods and services, and tlie protection of great tariff harriers to prevent these goods and services being tnmsfc red o-nlly add to the international difficulties. » “The great Dominions within the' British Empire and the Oo'oim-s did not present us with those difficult problems, and while in course of time, and for one reason or another, there had been harriers raised in the trading channels, or efforts had been made by Governments to divert traffic along new channels, wo were dear that in the Dominions that had neve- been done out of antagonism lb tlie Old Country.

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“At Ottawa, we are going to. take not the narrower, but the broader view. We are all go. ng in the same spirit—that of the desire to help those who are equal partners with ourselves in the establishment of the British Empire, prepared to make all our interests in common and to maintain that pride of race that has helped to make our people the guardians and guides of the world, and it is in that spirit—what I might call the New Zealand inspiration—that we are met here this afternoon.”