MR NASH WELCOMED.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 218, 14 August 1937, Page 9

MR NASH WELCOMED.

ENTHUSIASM at AUCKLAND

Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Aug. 14. There were scones of enthusiasm at the wharf when the Mataroa berthed, and an official welcome was given by the Harbour Board to the T< .nance Minister and Minister of Marketing (Hon. W. Nash), on Ins return from abroad. The chairman (Hon J. Bloodworth) said they were confident that if the success of the mission was possible Mr Nash was the one to 'The °Prime Minister (Bt. Hon. M. J Savage) said that Mr Nash had put New- Zealand on the map in Britain and was the right man in the right place He would later have an opportunity of stating what he had achieved. Mr Savage said they were going to do their job ! J"d t ' lc , slll l? State would not he allowed to drift on the rocks, where they had found it in 1935. (v Air Nash paid a tribute to the staff who had accompanied him oil his mission. Britain, lie said, was still the Homeland. They in New Zealand

hoped to carry out the tilings they had set out to do. _ . A civic reception to Mr Savage and Mr Nash will he tendered in tho Town liall this evening.

MESSAGE TO THE PEOPLE. Por Press Association. AUCKLAND, Aug. 13. Tlie New Zealand Herald requested the Minister of Finance (Hon. W. Nash), on hoard the Mataroa, to forward a message to the people of New Zealand on the eve of his return from EnMand. Air Nash has sent the following radio message in reply:— “My visit to the Old Country has been well worth while. I left from Auckland . with many questions unsettled and a great deal of work to lie done lam returning to Auckland knowing the answers to most of these questions, and knowing that all the work that it has been humanly possible to complete, lias been completed. “Negotiations in the United Kingdom, investigations made and discussions with other, countries will yield results that will not only be of immediately practical and economic benefit to New Zealand, but will provide us with material which will help us to build a better life for all New Zealanders. “1 have with me exhaustive reports on economic, social and administrative life in England which are of concern to New Zealand. What are our marketing problems in England—our publicity problems—our questions of Imperial relations? All aspects of these and other questions have been fullv explored. This, of course, is in addition to the negotiations of trade agreements. . . , TT “As to my visit to the United Kingdom commenced at the British Government’s request prior to. Christmas time, my negotiations were interrupted by the abdication procedure and the Christmas holidays, but in spite of unavoidable interruptions of tins nature the negotiations made solid progress. I shall have more to say on this later. “The position in regard to Tasman shipping, Tasman airways. Pacific shipnin" and Pacific airways is to some extent already known. Negotiations in connection with these have not been without their difficulties, but the results are of enormous importance to New Zealand, depending as she does perhaps more than any other country on outside communication “The question of national health insurance and national superannuation is one which has had attention both in the United Kingdom and in New Zealand I am hoping that New Zealand will be able to build a system superior to that in any other country There is much work to he done, hut J am confident that it can bo done.”