STILL AN OPTIMIST

Rotorua Morning Post, 28 August 1931, Page 3

STILL AN OPTIMIST

Press Association —

GOVERNOR'S ADVICE ADVERSITY NOT WHOLLY BAD FOR THE • NATION. "PROMOTE SECOND ARY INDUSTRY."

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Jtsy reiepnone — -fost Special Service. WELLINGTON; Thursday. At the opening of the Wellington Winter Show to-day the GovernorGeneral, Lord Bledislje, said. "I remain in tbe dark days of oppressing depression a confirmed optimist regarding the future of this Dominion, subject only to two considerations or c^nditions. The first is the full realisation on the part of every individual in the country, of the gravity of the nation's financial position and 'its possible repercussion -on the eventual welfare of his own activities, whetber producer, distributor, carrier, financier or purchaser. The other is the evidence of too eonservative an attitude arising from the inevitable geographical detachment from tba established centres of tbe world's hig industrial activities, towards the rapidly changing move in Britain and towards the destruction of finance. "We are passing through a pacific economic revolution," Lord Bledisloe continued, "and the recognition of this fact, and individual action based upon it, are the surest means of avoiding a reyolution of a less peaceful character. Temporary industrial depression is not wholly bad for tbe nation, nor for the individuals who compose it. 'Sweet are the uses of adversity.' In all respects are they especially salutary, first in promoting a sense of national solidarity, sympathetic co-operation betwc en all classes, and a determination to face without grumbling our full share of all reasonable sacrifices demanded of us; and secondly in developing the resourcefulness, ingenuity, and self-help which are apt to be at a discount in time of prosperity. "Mucb could he done to promote the national welfare by promoting home industries, fispecially in relation to the national products. Tbese could he fully utilised in a factory and in producing tbe Dominion's furniture and other workshops' goods upon which New Zeaand work people might well be employed, but wbich may have come in the past from foreign countries."