"A HAPPY NEW YEAR."

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 305, 24 December 1924, Page 4

"A HAPPY NEW YEAR."

PRIME MINISTER'S MESSAGE. BRIGHT TURN OF AFFAIRS. RETURN TO STABILITY. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The Prime Minister has issned the following New Year message to the people of the Dominican: "For the New Year New Zealand's prospects are decided ly encouraging. The high prices obtained for our wool in the recent sales must have brought considerable gratification not only to growers, but to the people in general throughout the Dominion Coupled with these fine sales of our wool is a very healthy tone in markets for almost all of our other primary products. There is justification, therefore, for our looking forward with renewed confidence to a prosperous year The people of the Dominion, particularly the farming community, had trying periods, but they faced them stoically and now they have the satisfaction of feeling a bright turn of events, and, in anticipation of that expectation being realised, there is no need for mc to counsel caution. Bitter experience of the past will be remembered, and profits from present high prices which are being enjoyed for our products will be used in bringing back that stability which it has always been this country's object to maintain. In a producing country like New Zealand, the prosperity of the producers reflects on the whole 0 community, and during Christmas this year and New Year, 1925, people should be signally happy and contented."