MAJOR DOUGLAS
CIVIC RECEPTION AT WELLINGTON [Per United Press Association.] • WELLINGTON ; ' February 7. Some 500 people, including ■ many women,'attended the civic reception today to Major Douglas, who, accompanied by Mrs Douglas, was given a rousing welcome. . The mayor (Mr.-T. C. A. Hislop) and Mrs 'Douglas, followed by Major Douglas and the mayoress (Mrs Hislop), Mr R. H. Nimmo (representing the Scots’ Societies), and others were piped into the hall by a kilted piper. Replying to speeches of ■ welcome, Major Douglas said that the rapidity of progress of any nation dr individual depended, in his opinion, oh a continuously growing appreciation of relationship's to the fundamental laws. The fundamental thing that was required in our financial systems and so forth was a reflection on the part of them of the truth of the economic truth. A primary complaint- made about the existing financial system was that it did not reflect facts. It was not in relation to the truth, and he believed that a community of the type found in New Zealand and in a country of New Zealand’s description was extraordinarily well placed to lead the world into a state of affairs where its systems and institutions would reflect the truth a little more accurately than at the present time.
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Evening Star, Issue 21640, 8 February 1934, Page 14
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