ALL MUST HELP

Hokitika Guardian, 24 December 1932, Page 5

ALL MUST HELP

BANKER S URGE

BETTER TIMES APPROACHING.

(Per Press Association <— Copyright.)

WELLINGTON, December 23. “We are at ; times 4pt f to criticigo the Government, probably jhstly at times, , but I think,- though, that w<* ought to try to - make' our criticism helpful, not merely destructive. The spirit of help is the spirit we want in New Zealand to.day;” Speaking thus at a social function held: by the Wellington Harbour Board yesterday, Mr J. T. Grose, General Manager of the National Bank of New Zealand, ana chairman of the Associated Banks, predicted that the world wa6‘ on the eve of better times. . . .

“We have never, in “all the tfistofy of the world as we know itj” . said, “experienced such difficult arid desperate times, but I do appeal 'to you, gentlemen, one and all, in these days to do your very utmost for the common weal. With regard to conditions overseas they are beyond our Teach; in very many ways they are beyond , our ' ken. The greatest minds of the world have get. themselves to -.try to .find a plan of betterment. " “I think that the hour before the dawn is quite close. I' sincerely hope so. It may bo. the outcome-of nonpayment by France, and some other nations and payment by England under that most wonderful statement, wise, true, dispassionate, which they Set out. I think it will all help to bring about world co-opeVation, . that will lead to betterment.” . ! » A shipping representative, Mr O. M. Turrell, while not prepared to believe that the hour of dawn was close at hand, reminded his hearers of, lean days in-N©w Zealand in any years ago. By sheer grit the .popple of those days won through, and the-people of to4day would win through; ale a if .they 'applied •themselves' properly .to coping .with the conditions. • “I think 'we have still got the same' grit' as our forefathers,” said Air Turrell. -“I don’t,- think jre are any worse than they, were. I ‘believe ,we, -shall win out all right.’’ ‘ Speaking' later Mr H. D. Bennett said "he had nyrsed the hope,; trhile Mr Grose wars' speaking, that not only was the hour of dawasomewhereround the, corner, but. .that it had,'’, arrived. Mr Grose was a man to whom they must look for advice, and ‘ he- was a man of . such Jn. the community that people respected his views. What Mr Grose had - said clearly ■ indicated that the subject of the depression and the slump was far e*jd away too big and beyond us. One might almost soy it was a .visitation from God. ••. ? ' ’ ‘ . !