AFTER THE WAR

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 December 1940, Page 4

AFTER THE WAR

PROBLEMS THAT WILL HAVE TO BE FACED SURVEY BY LORD GALWAY. i NEED OF UNITED EFFORT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Dealing with the questions of trade, commerce and finance that was going to emerge after the war, Lord Galway in his speech at the State luncheon at which he was entertained yesterday, said that he was afraid that the good old days had gone and they would have to face up to the fact that all Britain’s credits were passing to the United States. After the war there would be little or nothing the Home Government could do, except reconstruct its own finances. He was afraid the Bank of England would be rather in the state of Old Mother Hubbard’s cupboard so far as the Dominions were concerned. It was going to be a colossal problem. There was another very great problem, and that was the whole question of the utilisation of surplus products to see if there could be more equitable distribution. For a time after the war there would be a great demand for New Zealand butter, till Denmark and Holland once more became producing countries. Then the amount required from New Zealand would probably be reduced. The question would be: Could New Zealand’s surplus products be got on to the markets and sold? He recommended that New Zealand should study the requirements of the consumer, which was sometimes rather difficult to do. “In all these post-war problenis we have surely got to get together to think things out and to find what is going to be the best,” continued his Excellency. “I do not see why we should not get brains and benevolence j planning out things for the good of, the Dominion.