EFFECT OF ADVERSITY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 210, 13 June 1940, Page 3

EFFECT OF ADVERSITY.

BROUGHT OUT BEST IN BRITISH. (Per Press Association). WELLINGTON, June 12. With the British Empire engaged in a tit-antic war, the very adversity of the present situation was going to weld its people together in greater unity than evei: before for their own preservation and salvation, said the ActingMinister 'of Agriculture (Hon. F. Langstone) when he opened the annual conference of , the Dominion Council of Commercial Gardeners to.day.

Mr Langstone said that he believed that adversity had brought out the best in the British people. In prosperity they were prone to think individually and promulgate their pet schemes. Now the public cry was for national unification in every category of human endeavour and he was hopeful that out of it all great things would come. As the Dominion was removed from the conflict, the people were in a happier position that some other countries. They had surpluses of primary production, but were short of industrial raw materials’. By the sale of their primary produce overseas they had built up sterling funds for the purchase of these raw materials which they lacked. If this was. cut off they would nqt go short of food, but there would be a tremendous alteration in the standard of living. If they got a clear li(no and (camp out victorious they would not only preserve what they bad but would have the organisation for a better basis of production and distribution.