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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JULY 81, 1989.

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Britain and Japan

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 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

old ways have proved bad, to try new ways.

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 botter 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-

The fact that we have, in very plained over six weeks ago still continue in China, although the recent memory, Ho striking a 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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Str. Nash controls the exchequer of the only Labour Government In the British Empire, and he is now in Londou 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 vast pensions-for-all schemes, reduced working hours, increased living standards. Here are typical Brures he supplies showing changed conditions in New Zealand:

Total Production

Farm Production

Exports Importa

1038,

€0.8 25.4

1935.

Increase per' cent.

£07,000,000 £59,200,000

£135,600,000 £83.100,000

30.8

40.4

Electria l'ower (units) £12,347,000

£46,538,000

£ 19,852,000 £58,378,000

£30,317,000,

£ 55,422,000

52:0

Building Permits

(larger centres)

£ 4,452,000

0,057,000

› 103.4

Marriage Rate Birth Rate

8.23

10.00

10.17

17.03

27.7

13.5

Increase in money wage rates, 1935/1938

Increase in retail prices index, 1935/1938

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 1985.

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

Within the past four years, lessening of our trade relations Almost wholly, the increased WAGES, salaries and all British men and women are

incomes in New Zealand the Government's budget for with other countries, and least yield from taxation has been duc 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 We the limit of its expansion has We do not seek the will-of- better turnover, and to general levels hitherto reached. of China.

the wisp of isolation or self- prosperity,

The same rates of taxation have generally a forty-hour, not been reached.

This is clearly one factor that sufficiency. Rather do we seek As a nation, Englishmen are five-day week in industry, with

advantages to sets a limit to the possible rate to extend and make more secure have brought far more to the credited with sang froid-with compensating the cold blood that does not boil 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

able.

legion-that can be produced to remained with the people. up on every report of indignity. organised on that basis.

It is a simple truth, too often Even so, we are satisfied that better advantage in thle and

overlooked, that "taxable They reserve their words and

Farmers, notably dairy substantial improvements can other countries,

capacity" and the "burdens of their strength. There is farmers, have been given, under still be made and we are en

JUDGE this question by taxation" are relative termas dunger, however, that this calm-the guaranteed price procedure, couraged by the measure of

its bearing on the atan- that depend very largely on the success already achieved. ness in face of insult may be a standard of security they have

never known before.

Ong point of fairly common dards of living that our people-purposes for which the proceedla misunderstood, as it has been

Wisely applied on objects of Social services, education, pen- misunderstanding sometimes may enjoy, and there can be of taxation are used. misunderstood by the German

sions, and family allowances of deliberate misrepresentation but one answer, and that in

liberalised. A regard to New Zealand's favour of the maximum of trade, expenditure that can better be covered by governmental entér- Headers.

have been

The Government's commercial prise rather than left to scatter- general system of insurance policy and objectives deserves not in self-sufficiency. against all the insurable hazards mention. 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 endorsed by the our people and our standard of of its enterprises, can quite expense, taxation can, and docs, Far East. We can stand that.explicitly

munity. But he and his contemporaries majority of the people in the living against the vagaries of properly be judged by their ensure a not gain to the com- reckless booms and depressions. bearing on the material well- That is not to say that any of electoral contest last year.

That purpose has come to be being and on the real freedom us would advocate taxation or have drawn the conclusion that

Similarly, a general system of described, accurately enough, as of ordinary people. Britain cannot compete with

national health services is being one of Insulation. But it is far By that test, the New Zealand governmental expenditure for German might in the West or 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 or a have done well. Its programme posal and fairly judge whether with Japan in the East.

wise obstructive tactics.

Dr. Goebbels has jeered at the

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n move

There is real danger that, if

That is

familiar 1 Britain makes

retort to

enough to people in this country Japanese provocation but con-whose memories go back to 1911. tinues instead to make conees But when the people of the sions at Tokyo, the Axis may country have so clearly express- cd their determination to have come to the conclusion that we a national health service, who can be counted out on both sides can doubt that their will shall of the world. In Europe, Eng-prevail? lishmen fully recognise that any

ALONGSIDE 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 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 the necessity of taking greatly increased Britain will not fight.

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 from Great Britain and the this ground alone it would be the United States they will ultimate- height of folly for any real con- cession to be made in the Tokyo ly make the mainland too hot for the Japanese militarists. This talks, which have every appear- ance of reaching a crisis within 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 the Japanese mili-indicated last week, in no uncer- tarists will make in the event of tain terms, that Japan's excesses the Tokyo negotiations breaking would swiftly meet with reprisals down by much greater financial from across the Pacific.

the next 48 hours.

ever move

GRIN

AND BEAR IT

we should look at every pro-

.it can better be carried through collective, co-operative

оп

By Lichty baals, or otherwise.

Daph 1119 by albed Fontura Studies,

The Boss ought to be back any minute-he loft his

lunch in the unfinished business file."

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 off 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 in many years, a clear majority of votars (58 per cent) in its favour.;

And thus we carry on, con- fdent that wo 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 available to us.

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