“LONG WAY TO GO”

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 April 1939, Page 4

“LONG WAY TO GO”

MR SAVAGE ON ECONOMIC OUTLOOK. APPEAL FOR INCREASED PRODUCTION. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, April 25. An appeal to New Zealanders to help fill the gap caused by import control was issued by the Prime Minister in addressing the staff of one of three factories he visited in Auckland on Monday. He assured both employers and employees that they would get their equitable share of any increase in production. "We have a long way to go,” Mr Savage said. “We began by selecting things to come from abroad and we want you to fill the gap caused by the import restriction. I have to see to it that you are not doing this in vain.” “The question of raw materials has been mentioned,” Mr Savage said later in another address on similar lines. “Without them, you cannot do the job, and our task is to see that they are provided. Some people get the wind up and want to get in six months enough for 18 months or two years. If everybody does that, we are just where we were before. At the same time, it is our job to see that the raw materials are there.

“We will get a lot of bouquets thrown at us in the next few weeks — bouquets with bricks in them—but we have survived up to the present, and I think we will be able to go the remainder of the journey. You have to fill the gap created by import control, and it is up to me and the Government to see that you are not doing it in vain. It is our job to see to it that you are getting your share. We have to co-operate as never before.” Mr Savage added that his job was clear and his conscience was clear. In spite of the “bricks,” he was more confident than ever before that the people of New Zealand would stand behind the Government in the building of a nation in the Southern Seas.