ROAD TO PROSPERITY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 135, 9 June 1932, Page 14

ROAD TO PROSPERITY.

FARMERS' LEADER HOPEFUL SIGNIFICANCE OF OTTAWA. IMPROVEMENT IN A FEW MONTHS. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) NEW PLYMOUTH, Wednesday. "There Is every reason to believe that the slump is near its end. I am satisfied j that we shall in the next few months begin to climb the ladder to prosperity j again. It will not be any sudden leap | to prosperity, but it will be a slow | process of recovery. We shall work ourselves back to our original position in a few years." This was the opinion expressed by Mr. W. J. Poison, M.P., president of the Farmers' Union, during the course of his address when opening the Winter Show. Some people said that the country should not waste money sending a large number of delegates to the Ottawa Conference. Other people realised that the conference might create history and give the British Empire a driving force that would carry it on with renewed vigour. If the whole future of the Empire depended upon tho Ottawa Conference, Mr. Poison did not think there was need to worry over the expense of sending delegates.

New Zealand, he added, had learnt tho lesson that trade was necessary to her. Australia had found markets available, and by exploiting those new markets she had increased her export trade to the extent of 19 millions sterling. Australia exported to 50 other countries besides Great Britain. It was New Zealand's job to look also for other customers.

New Zealand, Mr. Poison continued, was in the same position that England was regarding Europe when Europe begun to push out into other avenues of trade. England discovered she had to find other markets than Europe. "I believe that the people of New Zealand are determined that something of that kind should be done. That, in conjunction with the Ottawa Conference, will mean that in the near future the comer oil the road to prosperity will really be turned."