ANGLICAN SYNOD

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 661, 13 October 1933, Page 5

ANGLICAN SYNOD

(Press Assn.-

archbishop opens with an impressive speech THE CALL FOR ACTION

— By Telegraph— Copyright).

Auckland, Thursday. "In spite of the gleans of sunshine, whicli make a rift in the clouds of the world depression, we cannot be too optimistic about the immediate future so long as Europe and other parts of the world are again verging on a cataclysm and feverishly piling up armaments, and so long as the nations cannot or will not face the question of financial readjustments and rise above self-interest and narrow nationalism," said Archbishop Averill, in his charge to the Anglican Synod, which opened to-day. His Grace said the world could not escape from the problem of unemployment, the remedy for which lay not in decreasing production, but in increasing purchasing power. We had passed beyond the stage of seasonal unemployment, and were face to face with endemic unemployment. Temporary expedients such as in Ameriea might help to tide a country over immediate difficulties, but did they touch the real problem? Surely there must be some solution, if only statesmen, financiers and economists had the moral courage to seek for it and translate words into actions. In a small country like ours it should be possible, if only politicians would put the welfare of individuals before party and work together for the common cause. His Grace referred to the cut in pensions, especially old age pensions, as in some ways the most distressing feature of all. He said he believed that New Zealanders would gladly share the extra burden needed for paying them in full.