SET HOUSE IN ORDER

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2668, 26 August 1930, Page 5

SET HOUSE IN ORDER

AUSTRALIA’S TRAVAIL REPERCUSSIONS OVER HERE (Per Press Association). Stratford, Aug. 25. “Australia’s position is so serious that it must have an indirect effect on New Zealand,” said Mr V. jPoison, M.P., in an interview today. Public opinion cannot be too strongly directed to the necessity of profiting by Australia’s misfoitunes. We cannot afford to drift a single hour. We must put our house in order at once. Australia has a colossal public debt, a balance, of imports over exports, and bigh taxation. What great difference exists between her position and New Zealand s? Let us face the facts. We are balancing our Budget by piling still more taxation on this already over-burdened community, instead of attempting to economise. Political courage and a strong policy are needed if we are not to be caught next year as Australia has been caught this year. If Sir Otto Neimever is right in his summing up of the position of the primary producer, not only in Australia, but in New Zealand also, the call is for immediate consideration and statesmanship.”