HOW CAN WE STAR1

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 35, 4 May 1927, Page 8

HOW CAN WE STAR 1

DESIRE FOR ECO% ! PRIME MINISTER’S Vfc| \ \ “MATTER FOR THE INDIVIDti (From Our Resident Report,,. S WELLINGTON, To^. ! The need for economy i n jc e I land would appear to be recop, ■ jby everyone. Public speakers, v v ! the Prime Minister down, emjiw | this and ask for a reduction ini" ies, fewer motor-cars, less iniw* . in more expensive pleasures little more work all round to bthe country's production up , standard where a general balaoc, be reached. Rut how is this to be done* That is precisely the cu*,. I which THE SUN man asked o; Prime Minister when -.liscussinj * 4; problem with him. Mr. Coates was asked to plj,. e finger upon any spot —theoretical otherwise — and say; “That is we make a start in effecting a ;et ;. economy throughout the Dominio- ! “It is a matter for the indicy. himself,” said the Prime Mini? “Any Government would be very popular if it stepped into a m, like that without there being 4 cient cause for it — and of co t . there is not the occasion for j| New Zealand at the present tine EDUCATING THE PEOPLE “But you say that the peoph j,.. to be educated. How is it to" done? How would you start?" “That, as I say, is a matter the people themselves. A little 1 pictures, a little less sporting, ali more work all round.” “Is there not only one way of it ing the people realise that they e, economise—to make them do witbr something they have been enjoyim “Yes; when they get right dm to bedrock they have to do withsomething. Some of us have to it... our suits last us twice as long as t; used to.” “But while they have the mot will they not spend it?” “Well, I have information of mers who have found themselvesr up against it, and for the past St; six years they have not left their b ings. They have sold their at cars, and just sat tight. Now l are going to come through all rit But all round them have been th who attend every stock sale and tend them in motor-cars. As for ordinary man, I don’t know how are going to deal with him. jy motor-car has just sent him craiy.s.. although there is a perfectly eEci tram-car running past his door must have a motor-car. It is u speed that gets them.” “Would you commence by educsu the children and giving them less spend?” “Well, that is dangerous. It in matter for the parents, and not the children. If we start on the c dren, it is interference. Cerx. the children could be taught tin but it is for the parent to say r.- A ther the child is to have the mo: to spend. It is the parent should be taught to economise itchild.” POSITION IS BETTER Mr. Coates then ventured the s’-ji; ment that the position was mud ter than it had been. Farmers informed him that their overtsSM charges had been reduced by half r". the past 12 months, and whereas L'ho could not at one time get iltefl this could be procured at the pre- f’l time. Figures in the North sfcovH that over the past five years sir cattle and general output hat creased, which all spelt wealth for 3 } country. “We all have to do our little I j: he added, “but it is not for the C*jm ernment to step in and deprive £ one of their rights—except, of cor t# in a case where the position is ar. |g And it has not reached anything that in this country.”