INDUSTRIAL RECOVERY

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20904, 11 July 1933, Page 8

INDUSTRIAL RECOVERY

APPEAL BY BISHOP BRODIE. An appeal for united action by the business community in facing the problem of industrial recovery in the Dominion was made last night by Bishop Brodie, at a meeting of Christchurch business men, which formed a branch of the National Reconstruction Association. As the leader of one of the Churches, which were acting together to provide relief, he saw much of the darker side of the life of the people, he said, and he saw the greatest need for a move to lift the people from the dire necessity in which they lived. "It has been stated that the problem to be faced is domestic," he continued. "That is true. Here in New Zealand we can deal with the situation in a way that may be an object lesson to the whole world. The time has come when the call placed before us during the war becomes only secondary to that of the present situation in its potential tragic consequences on the people. You may think it strange for a man in my position to associate myself with a work like this—a work intended primarily for business men. But the Churches must take a lead, for there are principles which may be applied "If we attack the problem we may find a solution. We have had the position as it. is placed plainly before us, in such a way that a man who does not address himself to the task is not thinking of his fellow men and is "not thinking of his place in the community. I exhort my fellow citizens of Christchurch and of New Zealand to act as New Zealanders, and to do their utmost to place New Zealand again where God intended it, as God's own country, and as one of the most prosperous in the world."