SELF-RELIANCE
(To the Editor.)
. Sir,—l saw a)writer's.opinion that New Zealand is fortunate.' By nature it isso. The country has many advantages, though we are in trouble now. I had a warning of this five years ago in America, and again two years.ago. While speaking of New Zealand's prosperity to an Englishman, he said it was based on spending borrowed money. ''The day is nigh when you cannot borrow. You will then find out how prosperous yon are." I consider we are fortunate now if we learn to go steadily and look to ourselves aud not depend on the flow ot money from abroad, but make the best of what we have to hand. This applies as a nation and to our private life. Man in New Zealand finds Nature with him, and to be depended on year by year. This is not so in other countries. But this very" thing tends to lead us to live from hand to mouth, thinking we see the future. This causes us t& husband no reseryes.-^I am, etc., .-••-
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Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 27, 1 August 1932, Page 6
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