BETTER TIMES

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 546, 1 June 1933, Page 4

BETTER TIMES

MORE CONFfDENCfe ' "PROSPERITY IS GOMING" SAYS GOVERNOkGENERAL J " "THE TIDE HAS' TURNED" 7 , "I am glad that I can say with per. fect. confidence that better times are coming," said the Govemor-Qe'neral Lord Bledisloe, in a speech at the presentation of the Arawhenua Can at Ohinemutu yesterday mornifig, He continued: "I11 the present serious economic depression, no one has suffered more 'than the man who mafc. es his living from the land, hut I au glad that I. can say with perfeet coj. fidence that better tiines are comb •and that the tide of depression has t'urne'd. ■ Though we will not enter upon StfCh a period as good as ja${ 'after the wai', I can safely say that we are entering- upon a period very soon of greater prosperity than we have had for the past few years. "There is no doubt tht we- shall all have to work hard," he went oh, "hht .we shall be none the worse for that 1 but we shall have to apply all the re- ' sources of science to our land

our businesses. If we do this and persevere I am sure that ,we shall enjoy once more prosperity H the i days- that are before us." Lord Bledisloe declared: "For ! many years the bulk of the wealth cf this country must be won from the 1 soil as haS been the case in the past ; No country in the world has a finer 1 growing climate than New Zealand •and no (country has a finer manhood 1 (than this, Pakeha and Ma6ri ale | and none has greater phjjracii % i •'.acity for work. The soil of Ne\yZea- 1 >nd profrerly managed is as fertile ) as an'y in the world." ' These cheering words met with ap- 1 •plause from Maori and Pakeha who ] t were present at the gathering. i