KING CONFIDENT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 1, 2 January 1934, Page 7

KING CONFIDENT.

MESSAGE TO PEOPLE. Facing Future With More Cheerful Hearts. LORD MAYOR'S GREETING. (British' Official Wirelesß.) (Received 1 p.m.) RUGBY, January 1. In accordance with ancient custom the Lord Mayor of London sent a New Year message to the King on behalf of the people of London. His Majesty replied as follows:— "Please convey to the citizens of London my warm thanks for their loyal New Year message. I greatly appreciate your words of greeting to the Queen and my family. I am happy to think that we can now face the New Year with growing confidence and more cheerful hearts."

NEW YEAR BLANKET. Fog in England Makes Prolonged Night. ALL TRAFFIC SLOWED. ' (Received 1 p.m.) LONDON", January 1. New Year's Day in half of England proved a prolonged New Year's night, owing to one of the most serious and widespread fogs of recent memory. Four lives were lost in accidents. Thousands of motorists lost tlieir way. In some districts, cars were obliged to move by convoys. Air services to and from the Continent were cancelled, except one machine from Paris, which landed at Lympne. Home-going business men from London were delayed, in some cases for hours, owing to reduced traffic facilities. Flares were used to direct traffic in some London streets, the occupants of cars often dismounting and walking ahead to show the way. There were many minor railway and road accidents, while a number of handbag snatch thieves easily escaped in the fog.

OUTLOOK IN U.S.A. ACCOMPLISHMENTS LISTED. (Received 10 a.m.) WASHINGTON, January 1. Optimism for the coming year was the central theme of the usual statements issued at the end of the year by Government officials, business and labour leaders. Some major accomplishments of the Administration in the past year were listed. They include the finding of Employment for 5,000,000 workers; bonuses with a substantial rise in most farm commodity prices; the general codification of industry under the N.R.A.; comprehensive credit relief in, respect of farms, homes and banks through the Reconstruction Finau:e Corporation; the repeal of prohibition; and the recognition of Soviet Russia.

N.S.W. PROSPERITY. SYDNEY'S BRIGHT PROSPECTS. (Received 10 a.m.) SYDNEY, this clay. Traders report one of the most successful seasons known for many years. The prospects rjr the second half of the wool-selling season are very bright and new records in prices are anticipated before the end of June, by which time another 400,000 bales are expected to be offered, making 1,030,000 bales for the whole season in Sydney alone. More than 00 per cent of Australia's current clip has now been sold. MR. BALDWIN HOPEFUL. PLANS POR TRADE REVIVAL. RUGBY, December 31. Mr. Stanley Baldwin, in a New Year message to the Primrose League, said the events of the past year gave every ground for encouragement. He referred to the steady expansion of the export trade and the increase in employment. He emphasised that although the New Year would be entered upon with hope and confidence, it would be folly to imagine that the work of the National Government was yet completed. "There are many difficult problems both at home and abroad which have to : ie tackled," Mr. Baldwin continued. "The industrial and agricultural poliev on which we have embarked needs to be extended and consolidated if we are to establish the trade revival on sound and permanent foundations. In that task wo need the co-operation of all. To return now to party strife would be little short of a national calamity."