"HOPES AND PRAYERS"

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 109, 11 May 1933, Page 5

"HOPES AND PRAYERS"

. DOMINION'S LONDON DELEGATES. HIS EXCELLENCY'S VIEW. "The announcement in to-day's papers of the New Zealand delegation to the World Economic Conference is a landmark in the history of the Dominion," said his Excellency the Governor-Gene-ral, Lord Bledisloe, in the course of his address to teachers at the Auckland Training College yesterday. "We all. I am sure, wish every success to the mission of the Prime Minister and the Minister of Industries and Commerce, who is also the Minister of Education. There is no country in the Empire so dependent for its economic existence upon external trade, and none therefore more concerned to see a sound and permanent solution of the problem of international commodity distribution and a reliable system of world currency which may set the wheels of industry once more in motion. Our statesmen delegates, whatever be their political convictions, can be trusted to remember that New Zealand's trade interests are inseparably bound up with those of the Motherland, and that no scheme which is inimical to her manufacturers, her farmers or her shipping is calculated in the long run to benefit any class in this Dominion. The hopes and the prayers of every section of the rommunity for the successful outeomc of their labours will go with them."