Building The Nation

New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 246, 10 March 1944, Page 6

Building The Nation

By

WHIM-WHAM

{"The wharf labourers think they are tough. They are the only ones who think that way, excepting, of course, certain Cabinet Ministers. But even so, the people are all afraid of them. The manufacturers fight among themselves for privileges, the importers cringe for licences, and the farmers howl for help." This comment was voiced by the president of the New Zealand Builders’ Federation (Mr. C. S. Luney) in his address to the opening session of the annual conference. There had been too much thought and effort devoted to the removal of obstacles and hardship, said Mr. Luney. . . . Evidence of the nation’s decay was to be seen all around.-News item.] yee. new prophetic Voice is This? What Warning to a shiftless Nation? It is the President, no less, Of the Builders’ Federation: One Pressure Group at least displays Rudiments of Social Sense; Unbusinesslike Forebodings cloud Its annual Conference. F epaete 2 Watersiders wanting More, From Manufacturers who quarrel, Importers cringing, Farmers howling, Builder draws his Moral: Where Everybody asks of Life One grand sweet economic Song, The Nation is decaying fastThe end will not be long! UT modern Economic Man, With all his selfish Shifts and Tricks, Has only recently revealed His Face in Politics: When Enterprise was Private, all Its less endearing Aims were hid; And Some are shocked by What they see Now we have raised the Lid! OOD Master Builders, rest assured That you are not the First to find The World a very wicked Place And Men perverse and blind! Suppose tor pool your Brains and lant, Your labour and your Capital To build a mighty Madhouse, big : Enough to hold us all. crn te RE ne ten mA men = arma