NATIONAL CREDIT.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 630, 6 October 1909, Page 8

NATIONAL CREDIT.

VIIiiEGATIONS 'OP ; ; ';-, '■■ 'Whilst ■';' addressing- members' ; •' of- -,-'•• the. : !■' New- ■ Zealand Club -yesterday,, the ''Prime Minister. SmadeYsome-interesting ..remarks'TelatinE-.to-::\th6^nblication\:pf;£liatemente^iCh"Ue'-alleged-' •; : . , ;tende'd.''to,.darflage.' the-credit 'of '.-theiTJbminiorii' '.' ;.-■>; I. wont "the-6aid,v'i-fouhd:-that. v:NeW.i:Zealand;stbbd.'eut promirientlj-/' and - as' /-hitherto is being,:watched with.interest. -,There iß;onlyipnerthin^:that : handicaps lis, and that lis;.misrepresentation.":! wish we Could doaway ;-v:with;that ,sort.:of.:thihg.v.ilf;we'.iad savlaw one in force in . Canacla, we .would < Do'■ able to-, protect oursblveO'gainst not, unkind xdnd,ungenerous, statements', but allegations :. which in som6-;instances..can'ionly beiidescribed .;.as.;malicious,-made in-regard. to our. country .■b'yipcople makiag('their::livingvhere3iour only ; difficulty isi I'repeat,'>the;dissemination, from, :' 'calculated jto 'make if outsiders-are'-in abSd.-way—infact, :nexti door ■;,-..-td insolvency;/. /.;..'■:;.7!£.-. tfpS-l''':-::'-, ':,',. ;.'',.':.' /-, -'; v/.TYhatil ;mean : i(cbhtinuedi; , Sir.\Jdsepn);.'.may; : be seen when I' mention whaticame'.befof '-.'.,when'l'was in.Lorjdoni ■)'■ Ton know:ll.went-from'ii : here: on'a-m'atter, of/consequence' : Well, ;cn; the,morning; afterimy arrival; a re- \ : presentatiye.of one-ofv.the:great metropolitan'. , pap^fS;Bhowed^rne.-two-.'sheets-.of ' •■'-. foolscap. on. •-.jwhich''.iwere' pasted; estracts-rtoithe -effect -that. v. everything .was-. .'bad-in./'New. f Zealand—which; .''hadvbeenftot : : here:' :■■- Oh the. top.v'iwere ■■?■ the ,v.words,;-','fGod's;- .own, the Prime; ; Minister'goes.to Lphdongive.him"-a good-time;' '-.That ,was;'nbt:;g6ihg:ta'';hurt''me',- ; but.';it.''mißhti; .'.have■■ injured tne::cre,dit'ofs-the.people. ,of,-this,.! .;cpuntry_.v.To:,the'/-credit';- 1 of V.the/ -newspaper.; .'"people-in theiOld : CoUHtry;'let me'say.that.they.; ;,did. not, publish leyen.a word-of it 1 ' -i';--',';»., ;;. -Sir Joseph.'went;' on'< to say--tha!t::he was!not-| ,:mkking;the;r'em'arks.-- ) with'''the intention of-,;re"-' ; fleeting, upon .anyone;' His Tobject in ■ alluding ;' to ,'the>BTibject' ;was>to ■ call ■/'attention to the' :;fact-that .whefl-;.th,e.:interesi3-;of<. NewiZealand/, : wefelat stake; everybody- should do; their .best' ;■'. to "keep its: good.,name ; .unbesmirohed.; <If; the "Dominion.^was.'/.uiifbrttrnaterenougha'to strike ,:bad- times,; it.Jwas.yhd. considered, the duty of ':.afl;w;.Kelp :to:put .itback/again. road. -;.♦», a; prosperous:.condition, ■ of: ; affairrj: which', .would;be : forVthe good of everyone irrespective of' their views.-.Organisatioiis similar -.to- the ;club of which ; ,he was;the: guest-that.day t would do-, a lot 'towards making, the peopletlrealise toat'they iad.all one'cominonl'object—l<> p'ro- ( mote in .the.highest possible' form the'truest ;:rntere^;'of,\thei,people ; : as'',a .whole..'.;•"