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From the Antipodes comes a
MESSAGE of NEW
HOPE
by the Hon. WALTER NASH
New Zealand Minister of Finance, Customs, and Marketing and Minister in Charge of Social Security.
OBODY can give an adequate picture of conditions in New Zealand to-day, after three-and-a-half years
into account:
First, the very great improvements in general well- being. Secondly, the bearing on our position in New Zealand of the strains and uncertainties that we share in common with Great Britain and other countries.
In a way, we are exceptionally fortunate. We have a Jand that is richly endowed, a people who are vigorous and adaptable and devoted to peace, a people who to a perhaps slightly unusual degree have been prepared, when Hongkong Telegraph. old ways have proved bad, to try new ways.
The
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Britain and Japan
aptitudes of our people very But whatever may be the
Hittle different from the people of these British Isles after all- and whatever the natural en- {dowments and potential wealth of the country, we are far from holding that progress towards better and more secure stan-
dards of wellbeing is therefore automatic.
Far from it.
THE "Intolerable insults" of which the Prime Minister, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, com- plained over six weeks ago still The fact that we have, in very continue in China, although the recent memory, so striking a contrast between unpardonably Japanese are now said to be con-bud conditions and the greatly sidering whether relaxation improved conditions of to-day is would not, after all, be the best itself a reminder that conscious, collective and governmentally policy. Rut for the present directed effort does count. Tientsin is still blockaded, and British men and women
are
those, such
able.
Mr. Nash controls the exchequer of the only Labour Government in the British Empire, and lie is now in London on a trade and defence mission. Once he was an office boy and small shop-keeper in this country. In New Zealand he has devised vasi pensions for all schemes, reduced working hours, increased Elving standards: Here are typical figures be supptles showing changed conditions in New Zealand;
Total Production Farm Production...
1936,
1038,
Increase per cent.
£97,000,000 £59,200,000
£135,000,000
39.8
£83,100,000
40,1
Electric Power (unlts) £12.347,000
£19,852,000
60.8
Exports
£46,538,000
£.58,376,000
25,4
Imports
£36,317,000
£ 55,424,000
52:4
Building Permits
(larger centres)
£24,452,000
0,057,000
103.4
8.23
10.09
Birth Rate
10.17
17.03
Increase in money wage rates, 1935/1938 Increase in retal prices index, 1935/1038
27,7
13.5
• Marriage Rate
has stood the test of practical experience. It is delivering the goods.
So far as the Government's own finances are concerned, it is no small achievement that, not- withstanding all that has been done, the Budget has been balanced, with a fairly sub- stantial surplus, every since the present, Government took office in 1935.
Expenditure has been greater than before, and so has revenue.
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WAGES, salaries and all Within the past four years, lessening of our trade relations Almost whelly, the increased incomes in New Zealand the Government's budget for with other countries, and least yield from taxation has been due |heing hounded out of the interior have been increased beyond any defence has almost trebled, and of all with the United Kingdom. to the increase in incomes, to the
of China.
levels hitherto reached. We the limit of its expansion has We do not seek the will-of- better turnover, and to general have generally a forty-hour, not been reached.
the-wisp of isolation or self- prosperity. As a nation, Englishmen are five-day week in industry, with This is clearly one factor that sufficiency: Rather do we seek The same rates of taxation credited with sang froid-with compensating advantages to sets a limit to the possible ato to extend and make more secure have brought for more to the the cold blood that does not boil whose work cannot well be jectives that are plainly desir- with those things and they are greater purchasing ability has as farm-workers, of progress towards other ob the interchange of our products State, while at the same time up on every report of indignity.organised on that basis.
Jegion-that can be produced to remained with the people. They reserve their words and
Even so, we are satisfied that better advantage in this and It is a simple truth, too often Farmers, notably dairy
overlooked, that "taxable their strength. There is farmers, have been given, under substantial improvements can other countries.
capacity" and the "burdens of danger, however, that this caim- the guaranteed price procedure, still be made and we are en- measure of
relative terms JUDGE this question by taxation" are ness in face of insult may be a standard of security they have couraged by the
success already achieved.
its bearing on the stan- that depend very largely on the never known before.
One point of fairly common dards of living that our people purposes for which the proceeds “Social services, education, pen- misunderstanding sometimes may enjoy, and there can be-of-taxation are-used.- sions, and family allowances of deliberate misrepresentation but one answer, and that in Wisely applied on objects of have been liberalised. A in regard to New Zealand's favour of the maximum of trade, expenditure that can better be covered by governmental enter- general system of insurance policy and objectives deserves not in self-sufficiency. against all the insurable hazards mention.
The Government's commercial prise rather than left to scatter of life is under way, after being We are anxious to safeguard policy, its financial measures, all ed and ill-organised individual explicitly endorsed by the our people and our standard of of its enterprises, can quite expense, taxation can, and does, majority of the people in the living against the vagaries of properly be judged by their ensure a net gain to the com electoral contest last year. reckless booms and depressions. bearing on the material well-munity.,
That purpose has come to be being and on the real freedom That is not to say that any of Similarly, a general system of described, accurately enough, as of ordinary people.
us would advocate taxation or national health services is being one of Insulation. But it is for introduced: its commencement from our minds to favour any- Labour Government can claim to its own sake. It does mean that By that test, the New Zealand governmental expenditure for is in part being delayed by un- thing like a severance
we should look at every pro- or a have done well. Its programme wise obstructive tactics.
posal and fairly judge whether it can better be carried through ૉ. collective, co-operative
misunderstood, as it has been misunderstood by the German leaders.
Dr. Goebbels has jeered at the British for doing nothing in the Far East. We can stand that. But he and his contemporaries
have drawn the conclusion that Britain cannot compete with German might in the West with Japan in the East.
or
if
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There is real danger that,
That is Britain makes no
move familiar relort to
enough to people in this country Japanese provocation but con- whose merriories go back to 1911. tinues instead to make conces But when the people of the sions at Tokyo, the Axis may country have so clearly express-
ed their determination to have' come.to the conclusion that we a national health service, who can be counted out on both sides jean doubt that their will shall of the world. In Europe, Eng. prevail?
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lishmen fully recognise that any
and ALONGSIDE these further act of Nazi aggression
other forward moves, we will involve the British Empire in New Zealand, as I have said, share the peace-versus-war in war. But the Nazis, by an anxieties that have afflicted all act of mass hallucination, con- the world, and, regretfully, wo tinue to deceive themselves that have had to face tho necessity of Britain will not fight.
taking greatly increased measures of preparation.
In the Far East, Japan has certainly been encouraged in and economic aid to China. If this dangerous delusion by the Chinese get adequate help Britain's impassive attitude. On this ground along it would be the height of folly for any real con- cession to be made in the Tokyo talks, which have every appear- ance of reaching a crisis within the next 48 hours.
from Great Britain and the United States they will ultimate- ly make the mainland too hot for the Japanese militarists. Thin course by Britain would have the advantage that we would be pursuing a course parallel to that Britain should counter what- of the United States, which ever move the Japanese mili- indicated last week, in no uncer- Įtarists will make in the event of ❘tain terms, that Japan's excessca the Tokyo negotiations breaking would swiftly meet with reprisals down by much greater financial from across the Pacific.
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"The Boss ought to be back any minute—he loft his
lunch in the unfinished business filo.'
We are constantly engaged in planning an order of priority to determine those things that can with the greatest gain be under- taken collectively.
The task of New Zealand as we see it is that of coping with Jour problems of transition by the way of persuasion and with the maximum of good will and co-operation.
THESE we have had, in good measure so far. The Labour Government's work in its first three years' term of offlec and its major plans for the next term, were fully expounded and just as fully criticised in the course of the General Elec- tion campaign towards the end of last year.
In the result, the Government was returned to office for a second termn.
It was given a great increase: in public support with, for the first time in many yours, a clear majority of voters (58 per cont.) in its favour.
And thus we carry on, con- fident that we can cope with whatever problems ariso and that our country shall worthily use to the ends of human happi. ness and well-being the resources |that are availablo to us..