ENGLAND'S GREAT TASK.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 March 1920, Page 7

ENGLAND'S GREAT TASK.

"SHE IS DOING HER BEST."

"England is doing her best," declared, Mr. W. K. Home, M.P., at the New Zealand Club luncheon. He had been asked in his travels, here and in other places—''Why don't yon send us goods? M'liy don't you send things out from England? We are wanting them badly and are willing to pay you a fair price for them." England, he assured them, was doing her very best; but it was no good sending out some goods: and not being able to keep it up when they had started. They had had obsolete machinery, oldfashioned methods, cramping rules of trade, which kept them back before the war. But now they had new factories, largely increased in she; they had scrapped the old machinery, and had ffot all the newest and best machinery. They had, besides, learned many more economic ways of production, and had educated a large number of workers, of women, who, he believed, in the future were going to be a very important factor in the industrial world. (Applause)Lot. them give England a little time, therefore, he said, and she would do all i they asked of her: ami in the meantime let the people of the overseas Dominions themselves push forward all the work that could possibly be done over here. (Applause).