A COUNTRY OF WORKERS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 4757, 3 January 1918, Page 5

A COUNTRY OF WORKERS.

SECRET OF NEW ZEALAND’S SUCCESS.

Speaking at the annual meeting in Christchurch of the general council of the agricultural, pastoral and dairying industries, Mr W. Ferguson, chairman of the National Efficiency Board, said that New Zealand should: be congratulated on the fact that all her people were workers. That was the secret of the great success of New Zealand, hut harder work must stil be done in the future. Our national, and local bodies’ debts had doubled in the last ton years, while our produce and exports had not kept up with such increase. We must not only think of the war, hut of after the war, and it behoved all to do everything they'could in the way of pushing ahead our industries. 1 articularly was it necessary that scientihc knowledge should play a greater part in our industrial life. It was to be hoped, that the Government would spend more and more for industrial and scientific research, and enable it to be applied as it should be to industrial and agricultural life- Mr Ferguson proceeded to enlarge on the necessity for bringing up children m the healthiest way possible, ancLsaidthere was no more healthy way than the country. He hoped that the-day of village settlements was not tar distant —settlements with the life or the country and the comforts of the city thus helping to build-up a healthy and sturdy race to take the place of those wlio would never come back.