National Security

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 678, 1 June 1929, Page 7

National Security

jSfezr Zealanders Must Be Prepared

VISITOR’S ADVICE

Sound advice is given New Zealanders by Mr. W. R. Bagnall, a orominent Australian, who points out that to be secure from an enemy the Dominion must be selfcontained and capable of manufacturing necessities within its own shores.

-•fK BAGNALL, eldest son of the .31 late Mr. Albert Bagnall, Is a member of a well-known Auckland family- He has been resident In Australia for the past 24 years and ha 3 occupied a seat In the New South ■Wales State legislature for 15 years. Business reasons account for his presence in Auckland. * “New Zealanders must awaken to the* fact,” said Mr. Bagnall yesterday, “that their country comprises over 100,000 square miles, with a population of less than a million and a half. The Dominion is 12,000 miles away from the Empire naval base and comprises only an insignificant unit of whites, isolated from their kith and tin, but in close proximity to the overcrowded East, with its teeming millions. . "This position brings us to consideration of the startling change that has taken place in the centre of international gravity. It should be recalled that, prior to 1914, the storm centre was the North Sea, the home of the British Navy. The Great War was fought out adjacent to and in this arena, and victory for the Empire and Allied forces brought security to New Zealand for the time being. Since 1918 developments in Pacific waters have changed the whole situation so far aa the safety Of Britons in the South Seas la concerned.” NOTABLE OPINIONS

Mr. Bagnall recalled the visits of the late Lord Northcliffe and Lord Burnham to the Pacific. “Lord Northcliffe stated that the Australians were living in a fool’s paradise,” he continued. “He was of the opinion that a handful only of Australians realised the rapidly-growing menace of the East and the urgent necessity for building up a national self-reliance to cope with it. Lord Burnham, who was here as leader of the British Empire Press Delegation, said that the greatest need of Australia and New Zealand was more population, and that could be attained only by the encouraging of manufacturing industries. Mr. Bagnall stressed the futility of relying for defence on a navy with its base so far removed from New Zealand. “Many Australians are beginning to realise the menace of this situation,” continued Mr. Bagnall, “and it is pleasing to notice that in New Zealand it is receiving growing recognition. The many powerful cartoons supported by clearly-stated arguments that have been appearing in The Sun must be having an effect. “Primary industries alone, no matter how prolific production may be and how great the consequent prosperity, are helpless when it comes to the question of national defence. Manufacturing industries provide the weapons without which ignominious failure awaits. NEW ZEALANDERS’ DUTY

“The simple task which falls to the lot of every New Zealauder is to apply practical patriotism in his daily life—to learu that it is uot sufficient to sing patriotic songs without acting also patriotically. At this juncture no greater act of patriotism can be performed by New Zealanders than that of demanding New Zealandmade goods and products. The slogan that should be blazoned throughout the length and breadth of the land Is: 'Buy New Zealand-made and Make New Zealand Prosperous and Secure.’” It was Mr. Bagnall’s opinion that no New Zealander could claim to be a good New Zealander if he or she were clad in imported clothing or materials when the same were produced and manufactured In the Dominion. “I have emphasised the national security side of the question,” he said. "It is remarkable that the same policy is the best to produce a restoration of prosperity and a diminution of the ranks of the unemployed.” Reference to the advantages of a "Preference to New Zealand Made” policy to primary producers was made by Mr. Bagnall. He pointed out that manufacturing industries were jobmakers and that the multiplication of population would mean a voracious and steady home market for the farmer.

“The natural sequence of events that arises out of the simple act on the part of all New Zealanders of buying New Zealand-made accelerates Prosperity and provides a solution of the unemployment problem. A state of affairs should bo rapidly brought about when New Zealand should be self-contained and equipped to face the growing menace arising out of her isolation in these Pacific waters,” he concluded.

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