PLANNING FOR PROSPERITY

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22593, 24 December 1938, Page 24

PLANNING FOR PROSPERITY

♦ ENGLISH PEOPLE ADVISED TO WATCH NEW ZEALAND (ISOM OTJB OWN CORRESPONDENT.) LONDON, December 5. The “Daily Dispatch” (Manchester) says that people and politicians in this country would do well to watch New Zealand in the coming year, the Ki. Hon. M. J. Savage, the Prime Minister, having announced that he is busily engaged in planning an increase in production. „ , , “The needs of New Zealand trade and industry,” the “Daily Dispatch” says, “are no greater than ours, but the Government there is ‘getting down to brass tacks’ and planning prosperity. That is something we should very much like to see more in evidence here. “Plan to put the unemployed to productive work; plan to sell our goods to foreign buyers; plan to prevent unfair competition both at home and abroad: plan to reduce our adverse trade balance. There is plenty of scope for the Ministers concerned. No less is there scope for employers' organisations and trades unions to bring forward practical schemes. “We must plan more if we desire prosperity—not just wait, Micawberlike, for something to turn up.”