EXAMPLE OF NEW ZEALAND.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20085, 14 November 1930, Page 23

EXAMPLE OF NEW ZEALAND.

DEPRESSION EFFECTS.

AUSTRALIANS' ADMIRATION.

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SYDNEY, November 6. If Australia would only follow the example thfit is being set by New Zealand, it would recover quicker from the current depression than will otherwise be the case. That seems to sum up the views of various travellers who have returned to Australia after a tour of the Dominion. Quite a number have given nothing but praise for New Zealand, notably Mr f T. Grose, general manager of tho National Bank at Wellington. He says that New Zealanders are meeting the situation in the right spirit, and although conditions are bad to-day, and may become worse, he is confident that New Zealand will be one of the first countries to emerge from the depression triumphant. Another notable expression of opinion must be credited to an Australian, Dr. A: J. Boss, of Brisbane. He said that all New Zealanders realised that world conditions were no longer as favourable for export ias before. As a country dependent a great deal on her exports, the Dominion determined to export greater quantities, so that the fall in prices. would have as little adverse effect on the national income as possible. Prices for most commodities in New Zealand were higher than they were oversea, but the people realised that sacrifices were necessary, and had settled down to bring all production costs lower by increased efficiency and greater output. If Australia followed Hhe same course there would not be so much talk of depression, and the country would not be described as '' verging on the state of some of the South American Republics." Sir Otto Niemeyer, said Dr. Boss, had created a fine impression in New Zealand, and, what was more important, the programme that he had mapped out was already under way. This was bound to have good effects. New Zealand had been told too much of the criticism in Australia of Sir Otto. Many of the cable messages that were seiit to the Dominion while Sir Otto was there were in bald taste, and they gave a wrong impression of the man and reflected sadly on Australia. In New Zealand Sir Otto was welcomed as a man who had come to help the country and not to instruct or command. It was a great.pity that that attitude had not been general in Australia.