POST-WAR RECONSTRUCTION

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23354, 13 June 1941, Page 10

POST-WAR RECONSTRUCTION

'Sir,—l note by “The Press” of Tuesday that a conference of churches is aßout to be held in New Zealand to consider problems of •• post-war reconstruction on the lines of the recent ' Malvern Conference convened by the Archbishop of York, but with a somewhat wider scope.

. May I suggest, as a farmer, that this wider scope should'include representatives of the land; that •is the land in its literal sense, the soil we use and live by and are entrusted with to hand down to those who come after us. At present, the interests of the land as such, and the interests of commerce as we know it, have always 'been, and perhaps always will be, diametrically opposed. In confirmation, witness the exploitation and spoliation ,in the last Century over the whole earth; and New Zealand has not escaped. It might be almost epoch-making if the Church here at this stage took its courage in its hands and laid down clearly its, interpretation of the rendering to Caesar, stating inequivocably Just, what is Caesar’s. Timidity will be the easier to dispel after the; lead , given by this Malvern Conference, v where many propositions bravely/HWrig'to the heart of things were hgc®ted unanimously.—Yours, etc., : ‘ ■' Y. T. SHAND. : June 10, 1941.