THE BRIGHTER SIDE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 893, 10 February 1930, Page 8

THE BRIGHTER SIDE

AUSTRALIA CAN MAKE GREAT RECOVERIES* TIMES HAVE BEEN WORSF ‘•Money is certainly a tight, but the country i s sobd * will soon make a good reeov^ I have been through much wn~' times than the present, and haw s«n .Australia make great re C( £ Mr. R. H. Gordon, a direotn. Associated Newspapers Ltd g a * who arrived by the Niagara ,2’ morning, was far from being J” mistic. There is a marked Mr. Gordon, for neoni’ giving statements to the Press mi 11 on the worst side of tilings, and times there is a tendency for ,?*' to be over pessimistic. ‘ During the crisis of lgjs were a great deal worse than arA: 3 ent.” he said, “and the country St a good recovery. The much more sounder now than it then.” K »ii Mr. Gordon said he was in in 1925 when the Homeland was « 4 ing through a very bad period, that occasion there was a -rest a , of pessimistic talk, but a proniw Englishman reassured him wiffi , remark; “We have been throng worse times and pulled through we will pull through this" -iev 4 a country was passing through periods the tendency was for to get their backs to the wall sometimes it was a good thin-' , country to be put to the test * "Australia is a country of potentialities,” concluded Mr GrvkiA “and it is able to make great eries.” The welcome rains rewSk experienced throughout lhe comtrv would bring good results later m There was also a tendency for to firm, and this also was vervA couraging. J Mr. Gordon, who is on a hohd» visit, Is accompanied bv y- rft Miss Gordon. "