A STERN FIGHT
DOMINION'S PART
SACRIFICES AHEAD
MINISTER'S APPEAL
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, This Day.
"Coming at this particular time when the Dominion is passing through a period of financial difficulty occasioned by a shortage of sterling funds, the war will unfortunately severely accentuate New Zealand's difficulties," said the Minister of Finance (the Hon. W. Nash) when discussing in an interview the Dominion's war effort.
"It may involve at least temporarily a serious measure of dislocation of our economic life," the Minister said. "It will probably mean that in the meantime at least new measures of policy, other than those directly concerned with furthering the war effort, will have to be postponed. It is bound to require a considerable sacrifice, material as well as personal, from one and all.
"But however great the difficulties, however onerous the sacrifices, they must be resolutely faced. Because so much is at stake it is no longer a question of whether the Labour Government succeeds or fails; it is no longer a question of wisdom of this or that particular line of policy! The issue today is whether New Zealand shall continue to exist as a free and independent nation, as such it is, an issue which must evoke response from every man and woman of the Dominion, irrespective of party, class, or creed."'
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 113, 14 May 1940, Page 6
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220A STERN FIGHT Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 113, 14 May 1940, Page 6
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