AN OPTIMISTIC OUTLOOK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 220, 17 September 1930, Page 6

AN OPTIMISTIC OUTLOOK.

Ever since Lord Bledieloe reached New Zealand he 'has utilised every jjossible opportunity to impress upon his many public audiences his .confidence .-in".the future of the Dominion, and'his strong conviction of the immense value of its natural resources. The address delivered by His Excellency in Wellington yesterday was quite in , keeping with his previous utterances on this subject, and deserves the warm.gratitude of the people of New Zealand. At such a.time as this, when pessimists are pondering gloomily over debts and falling , prices, it is a 3-elief to receive from the Governor-General tliis. assurance of his faith in the great potentialities of the country and his firm belief in its ability to weather any commercial or financial storm that is likely to assail it. . Lord Bledisloe naturally attaches most importance to.our primary industries, on which, as he rightly, says, the prosperity of other forms of production must depend. But he also spoke strongly in favour of supporting our secondary industries by purchasing homemade commodities, arid he advocated the extension of trade with Britain as a means of "keeping the money in the family." If the people of New Zealand would only take the Goyernor-GeneraPs advice in these matters, and at the same time borrow from him a little of the cheery confidence that seems perennially to inspire him, there would soon be a change for the better in the atmosphere of our little commercial and industrial world.