1939-07-31 — Page 18

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAFII, MONDAY, JULY 81, 1939.

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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 Chargé of Social Security.

OBODY can give an adequate picture of conditions in New Zealand to-day, after three-and-a-half years of Labour Government, without taking two things 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 land 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.

Wyndham St., Hongkong 'Phone 26615 July 31, 1939

Britain and Japan

But whatever may be the aptitudes of our people-very little 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-

THE "intolerable insults" of dards of wellbeing is therefore

automatic.

Far from it.

which the Prime Minister, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, com-. plained over six weeks ago still The fact that wo have, in very continue in China, although the recent memory, so striking & contrast between unpardonably Japanese are now said to be con- bad 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. But for the present directed effort does count.

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As a nation, Englishmen are credited with sang froid-with the cold blood that does not boil up on every report of indignity. They reserve their words and their strength. There is а danger, however, that this calm- ness in face of insult may be misunderstood, as it has been misunderstood by the Germani lenders.

able.

Mr. Nash controls the exchequer of the only Labour. Government in the British Empire, and he is now in London од

trade-and-defence

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mission. Once he was an offleo boy and small shop-keeper in this country, In New Zealand he has devised vast pensions-for- all schemes, reduced working hours, increased living standards. Here are typical figures he supplies showing changed conditions in New Zealand: 1035.

1938. Increase

Total Production.....207,000,000 £135,600,000 Farm Production .... £50,200,000 £ 83,100,000 Electrio Power (units) £12,347,000 Exports Imporis

per cent.

39.8

40,4

£ 19,852,000

GO.B

£40,538,000 £36,317,000

£ 68,376,000. £55,422,000

25.4

52:6

(larger centres)

Marringe Rate Birth Rate

£4,452,000 £ 2,057,000

8.23

10,09 10.17

17,03

103.4

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Increase in money wage rales, 1935/1938 increase in retail prices Index, 1935/1938

21.7

13.0

Building Permits

the guaranteed price procedure, still be made and we are en- of

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 year since the present Government. took office in 1935.

Expenditure has been greater than before, and so has revenue.

British men and women

WAGES, Balaries and all Within the past four years, lessening of our trade relations Almost wholly, the increased. incomes in New Zealand the Government's budget for with other countries, and least yield from taxation has been due [being 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

levels hitherto reached. We the limit of its expansion has of China.

We do not seek the will-of- botter turnover, and to general.

five-day week in industry, with have generally a forty-hour, not been reached.

the-wisp of isolation or self-prosperity. This is clearly one factor that sufficiency. Rather do we seek The same rates of taxation compensating advantages to sets a limit to the possible rate to extend and make more secure have brought, far more to the those, such as farm-workers, of progress towards other ob- the interchange of our products State, while at the same time whose work cannot well be jectives that are plainly desir- with those things-and they are greater purchasing ability has organised on that basis.

leglon-that can be produced to remained with the people.

It is a simple truth, too often Even so, we are satisfied that better advantage in this and Farmers, notably dairy substantial improvements can other countries,

overlooked, that "taxable farmers, have been given, under

capacity" and the "burdens of are relative terms JUDGE this question by taxation" a standard of security they have couraged by the measure

its bearing on the stan- that depend very largely on the success already achieved.

Ong point of fairly common dards of living that our people purposes for which the proceeda never laown before

Social services, education, pen- misunderstanding sometimes may enjoy, and there can be of taxation are used.

Wisely applied on objects of sions, and family allowances of deliberate misrepresentation but one answer, and that in 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- Dr. Goebbels. has jeered at the 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- British for doing nothing in the of life is under way, after being We are anxious to safeguard policy, its financial measures, all ed and ill-organised individual Far East. We can stand that. uxplicitly endorsed by the our people and our standard of of its enterprises, can quite expense, taxation can, and does, But he and his contemporaries 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- That is not to say that any of have drawn the conclusion that

That purpose has come to be being and on the real freedom Similarly, a general system of described, accurately enough, na of ordinary people. |Britain cannot compete with

| German might in the West

with Japan in the East.

or

if

munity.

us would advocate taxation or national health services is being one of Insulation. But it is far By that test, the New Zealand governmental expenditure for introduced: its commencement from our minds to favour any- Labour Government can claim to its own sake. It does mean that is in part being delayed by un- thing like a severance

wo should look at every pro- or a have done well. Its programme posal and fairly judge whether wise obstructive tactics.

There is real danger that,

a That is move familiar Britain makes no retort to

enough to people in this country Japanese provocation but con- whose memories 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 national health service, who can be counted out on both sides can doubt that their will shall

of the world. In Europe, Eng-prevail ?

in war.

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|lishmen fully recognise that any

LONGSIDE these and 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 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 the necessity of taking greatly increased Britain will not fight.

measures of preparation.

from Great Britain and the United States they will ultimate-

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. Ол Įthis ground along it would be the height of folly for any real con- cession to be made in the Tokyoy make the mainland too hot for the Japanese militarists. This talks, which have every appear-

course by Britain would have the ance of reaching a crisis within

advantage that wo would be the next 48 hours.

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- tarists will make in the event of tain terms; that Japan's excesscs the Tokyo negotiations breaking would swiftly meet with reprisals down by much greater financial from across the Pacific.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

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it can better be carried through collective, co-operative

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By Lichty basis, or otherwise.

p. 1939 by Vollok Pintura Brudiekte, Tan,

"The Boss ought to be back any, minuto-ha` 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 our 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 fur... The Labour Government's work in its first three years' term of office 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 term,

It was given a great increase in public support with, for the first time a many years, a clear majority of voters (58 per cent.) in its favour.

And thus we carry on, con- fident that we can copo with whatever problems arise and that our country shall worthily use to the onds of human happi- ness and woll-being the resources: that are available to us,

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