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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 140, 14 May 1940, Page 6

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PROSECUTION OF WAR. ECONOMIC STRESS. Per Press Association. - AUCKLAND, -May 13. “Coming at this particular time when the Dominion is passing through a period of financial difficulty occasioned by the shortage of sterling funds, the war will, unfortunately, severely accentuate New Zealand’s difficulties,’’ said the Minister of Finance (Hon. W. Nash) in an interview when discussing the Dominion’s warefforts. “It may involve at least temporarily a serious measure of dislocation of our economic life,’’ the Minister said. “It will probably mean that, in the meantime at least, new measures of policy other than those directly concerned with furthering the war effort will have to be postponed. It is bound to require a _ considerable sacrifice, material as well as personal, from one and all. But however great the difficulties, however onerous the sacrifices, they must be resolutely faced because so much is at stake. '“lt is no longer a question of whether the Labour Government succeeds or fails. It is no longer a question _ of the wisdom of this or that particular line of 'policy. The issue to-dav is whether New Zealand shall continue■■ to exist as a free and independent nation. As such, it is an issue which must evoke a response from every.; man and woman of the Dominion, irrespective of , party, class, or creed,” added Mr Nash.