PESSIMISM DEPLORED

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20282, 26 August 1937, Page 10

PESSIMISM DEPLORED

DOMINION’S PROSPERITY “MAKING THINGB HAPPEN ” PRIME MINISTER’S VIEWS (Special to Times). WELLINGTON, Wednesday “ The Government is not going to wait for things to happen; it is going to make them happen,” stated the Prime Minister, the Right Hon. M. J Savage, speaking at a Chamber of Commerce luncheon at which he and the Minister of Finance, the Hon. W. Nash, were the guests of honour. “ Here we are in a state of prosperity,” said Mr Savage. “ When we were in times of difficulty people were saying that prosperity was round the corner, but now those people are saying that disaster is round the corner. I cannot understand why that should be. If we are capable of producing the goods and services that mean prosperity, surely we are capable of seeing that people enjoy those things.” Mr Nash referred to the policies being followed in the various countries he had visited during his tour abroad. He said he was satisfied that the standard of living that could be experienced by the people of New Zealand would be higher or lower in proportion to the trade that New Zealand had with the United Kingdom. The policy of the Government that New Zealand should take from the Old Country all the manufactures it needed, in return for Britain taking our produce did not conflict in the slightest degree with the development of secondary industries in New Zealand. The New Zealand Government reserved to itself the right to implement the policy placed before the electors. The Government was faced with the necessity of initiating new Industrie because there were 25,000 unemployed in the country. It was unfair that anyone who was competent or willing to work should be deprived of the right to work.