Every New Zealander Earns £600 a Year

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 603, 4 March 1929, Page 8

Every New Zealander Earns £6OO a Year

DOMINION'S WEALTH PRIME MINISTER’S FAITH Fress Association GISBORNE. Sunday Every New Zea'ar-der i s -- mg £6OO a year, a though u _x n * tunately all did not have an in of that size. New Zealand. tW? fore, was a much wealthier C j„: ! try than the Motherland. Speaking at a banquet given b, v, I honour. Sir Joseph Ward thus emphT sised the prosperity of the Domini/" I He said Britain had a population of i 55,000,000, yet in spite of the d ispiu . ity in population the sizes of New Zea* land and Britain were practical equal. Although 12,000 miles away ; her markets. New Zealand stood oet ins countrv of the world. The value of New Zeal I land’s production per head per was higher than that of any o the* j country. New Zealand had had bad time 3, , other countries. The evils of | Great War, as far as Xew Zealand wa* concerned, were disappearing, and now things were going better. ! Sir Joseph said he did not believe .it would be possible for America to ] oust London from the position of financial centre of the world. Canada. Ausj tralia, South Africa, and Xewioundland were all progressing, but not v. the same degree as Xew Zealand. Onprogress was much faster. Xew Zealand depended for her prosperity on * produce sent to other lands; therefore nothing should be done which in ; any way might injure the primary industries. Let all do all they can to help town j industries, said the Prime Minister. but not at the expense of the primar- | pursuits. Competition between the . town and country should be avoided. and clashes between labour and capi- ! tal should also be avoided. The weh i fare of the country should be studied as a whole.