HIS FORMER HOME.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 385, 17 March 1937, Page 7

HIS FORMER HOME.

Mr. Nash at Birmingham ! i London, February ’’t. ■ A welcome home was extended to he New Zeeland Minister of Finance md Minister of Marketing. Hon. Valter Nash, by the Lord Mayor of Sirmingham, at a civic banquet ’to disinguished visitors to the city for th’ British Industries Fair. The Lord Mayor said that Mr Nash rad lived and worked in Birmingham rom 1897 to 1)09. The Minister had narried a Birmingham lady and with tier had gone to New Zealand, whe” lie had achieved a commanding Posidon in public life. Therefore. Uier might justly cl: ini him as a son of Birmingham Whose achievements overseas reflected credit on that c ; 'v. With, the Belgian Ambassador, The Minister responded to the toast "World Trade” al the annual ba' l '"iet of the Birnrnrham Chamber of "ommsreo. Mr Nash said there was only one proper road towards maintaining prosp rity. and that was by looking at the world at large. There had been emphasis on the limitations of trade by quotas, tariffs and exchange control; but it was worth v liile to rear lise that there had been slumps before there ware quotas and tariffs. One could not put the whole responsibility for the difficulties in recent y: ars on either quotas or tariffs. To recognise the world as a unit meant free trade, but that was not practical today, continued the Minster. The duty of governments was to find out how they could use to the full the resources whether humion nr material in the areas they controlled for the beneflfit of th- ir own people. Whey they had done that they should, in so far as they had resources that •ould be helpful to other people, find a way to get those resources to other lands. In no part of the world should resources remain unused if in any other part of the world there were neople who would be bett red bv having access to those resources. Ho urged that things should run evenly towards a progressive state tor'everybody.