DISTRESS IN N.Z.

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 648, 28 September 1933, Page 6

DISTRESS IN N.Z.

DISGUISING THE POSITION TO DENY ITS EXISTENCE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL DEBATE Wellington, Wednesday The Legislative Council met at 2.30 p.m. Continuing the Address-in-Reply debate, • Hon. J. Trevithick (Auckland) said that many of the nations which had attended the World Conference had been more concerned with their own domestic problems than the welfare of the world as a whole. They forgot that the interests of nations were interdependent and were endeavouring to live in isolated nationalism. In view of the serious phase through which the world was passing, trade within the Empire .should he the slog,a.n of the British Commonwealth' of Nations. Small Farm Scheme He was convinced that the Small Farm Scheme .was the principal method by which New Ztaland could absorb large numbers of unemployed. In the manufacturing industries, men were being continually displaced" by machines. Hon. M. Fagan (Welftngton) said that the raising of the exchange had resulted in a transfer of money from one section of the people1 to another section. N.Z.'s Own Resources In view of the fact that the Imperial Conference of 1931 and the Ot,'tawa Conference had failed, there had been no reason to expect success for the World! Conference where the problems were more di'fficult. Thc.y had to realise that the job of rehabilitating New Zealand lay within the Domiriion itself; it was misleading to say that there was little suffiering in New Zealand from. unemployment as hundreds of families were in a serious plight. The only remedy was to place men lat work on standard wages. He advocated building an aerodrome at Petone as the means of improving the Dominion's defence and in order to provide work for the men in the Hutt Valley. Segregate Disloyalists Hon. P. McCallum said, that there were people in New Zealand who advocated violence and disloyalty and he suggested they should he placed on an island in the Pacific. He urged the Government' to increase the strength of the Legislative Council in order that it could function properly.