MUST “KEEP PECKERS UP.”

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4515, 9 October 1930, Page 4

MUST “KEEP PECKERS UP.”

PESSIMISM DEPRECATED.

Dunedin, October 7

A thing which had struck him forcibly during his visit Home, said Mr. P. R. 'Sargood in an address he gave to members of the Dunedin .Chamber of Commerce costekday morning, was the inclination to pessimism on the part of some sections of the British tradespeople. He knew of nothing more detrimental to the rising generation and to possible foreign buyers of British manufactures than this lack of confidence in the future and the doubts regarding how they woke to get out of the economic difficulties of the present time. He hoped New Zealand would not allow these pessimistic ideas to dominate them. They must [keep their peckers up and light and ‘tilings would come right in time.

Of course, there were very difficult problems for the people to solve, and although they were told that there were two million unemployed he did not believe it. He had travelled widely ovetr England, and no doubt unemployment in some parts was bad, but there w as no indication of it in the Lon - don area, where big factories were being built. Mr. Sargood criticised the dole, ~111 d said it was really creating arlilicial unemployment, but he doubled whether any political party would be willing to tackle the problem.