WAR TIDE NEARER

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20380, 17 October 1940, Page 8

WAR TIDE NEARER

DOMINION SHORES SOLIDARITY REQUIRED PRIME MINISTER’S CALL OUTPUT & DISTRIBUTION (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON. this day. Addressing the Economic Stabilisation Conference, which reassembled to-day to consider the working committee's report, the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. P. Fraser, said that since the" conference first met the tide of war had rolled nearer New Zealand's shores. No man could say what the future or the near future had in store for this country, and it was more necessary and urgent at the present time go tlirow all the measures that would lend toward cohesion and solidarity into the effort required. The committee had heard a great .number of witnesses and long-range evidence had been placed before it and it now had ready a report for the full conference. The main object of the conference was to get together in friendly consultation representatives of all sections of the community and gauge production and distribution so thatthey would arrive at some means of helping the country. The first object was to get the greatest measure of unity to enable a basis upon which all interests could work. The conference went into committee to consider the report.