BRIDGES OF PROGRESS

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 52, 24 May 1927, Page 13

BRIDGES OF PROGRESS

ADDRESS TO BUSINESS MEN The Karangahape Road Business Promotion Society, after its luncheon to-day, listened to an address by Air. T. Bloodworth on “Building Bridges.” Air. William Thomas occupied the chair. The speaker said that he referred to bridges in human progress. He divided the foes of progress as Air. G. B. Shaw divided them into those who stood still and looked backward and those who looked forward but stood still. Education was a bridge which stood to lead society on its evolution. He referred to unemployment and directed the society’s attention to the need of a bridge to lead the society into a better state of affairs. New Zealand was as one of those people who look forward but stand still. New Zealand had not sent to the International Labour Office any information on its experience of legislation on subjects which other countries were experimenting with. If we could do anything toward raising the standards of labour in Japan for instance we would be doing something also for ourselves. The speaker referred to Air. J. Al. Keynes’s book, “The End of Laissezfaire” as a bridge in human progress leading from the old economic theories of no government interference. Air. Bloodworth was voted the thanks of the society for his address.