A BETTER AND BRIGHTER WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 November 1919, Page 5

A BETTER AND BRIGHTER WORLD.

BUT INCREASED PRODUCTION ESSENTIAL. (From Onr Own Correspondent) Eltham, Last Night. "A lot of people thought that after the war we would be living in a new heaven and oh a new earth, but these conditions have not come," said Mr. Massey in his speech hero to-night, "but," he added, ''the world is going to be a bettor and a brighter one even if it was 'not yet altogether what we desired." He had hoped that when tho war ended theft would be a fall in prices, but. instead of that the position was that to-day, twelve months after the armistice, we went paying more, for onr commodities than' we paid at the end of the war. The Government, declared Mr. Massey, would do everything possible to help things back to normal, and with this object in view the Government was going to take drastic steps to stop profiteering. This, however, would not alone brine; prices down to the pre-war standard, for thorn were other influences operating, such as the cost of goods imported, over which the Government had no control. Increased production throughout the world as well as in New Zealand was essentia] to help to bring prizes down. New Zealand had done splendidly in production during , the war, but we must exert ourselves to do better. "We cannot have happiness without contentment, and we cannot secure, contentment wit'iout industry," concluded Mr. Massey.