CONFIDENT HOPE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 September 1941, Page 5

CONFIDENT HOPE

OF LABOUR CO-OPERATION EXPRESSED BY FEDERAL PREMIER. REVIEW OF ECONOMIC OUTLOOK. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) BRISBANE, September 9. The Federal Premier (Mr A. W. Fadden) is supremely confident of securing adequate support and political cooperation from the Federal Labour Party now that he has become Prime Minister. He expressed this view .at a civic reception in his honour at Ipswich today. He said: "If Labour co-operates ■to the same extent as it did when I was Acting-Prime Minister, then I, and Australia, through me, will have no cause for complaint.” He also gave an assurance that Labour would grant a pair for Sir Earle Page during his absence in London. Mr Fadden referred to the forthcoming Budget as outweighing anything that had preceded it, and, he hoped, anything that would follow. Reviewing Australia’s primary production, he said that, notwithstanding shipping difficulties, the export income had substantially increased since the war began, while the gross income of the farmers was even higher than before the war. In round figures, wool exports for 1940-41 totalled £41,500,000, wheat and flour £16,000,000, butter £12,000,000, sugar £4,750,000, and meat £15,750,000.