FUTURE OF N.Z.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXI, Issue 12398, 10 November 1934, Page 5

FUTURE OF N.Z.

“DESTINY IS WHAT YOU CHOOSE TO MAKE IT.”

LORD BLEDISLOE’S HINT TO MAN ON LAND.

CLOSE CONTACT WITH BRITISH FARMERS URGED.

(Press Association',

WELLINGTON, Nov. 9

■; In his address at a luncheon given in his honor at the show today,.... tile Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe, emphasised that New Zealand farmers should endeavour to maintain friendly and close contact with, the farmers of the Old Land. His Excellency expressed the confident opinion that any differences among 1 armors in the. Empire could soon be adjusted..

“What has the future in store for you?” His Excellency asked, when speaking of the courage and resourcefullness shown by New,Zealand farmers ill their recent difficulties. “You have the pick of the Empire territories, Nature’s richest gift. Your sample of humanity, Briton -and native is unsurpassed elsewhere. Your destiny is what you choose to make it, with tlie help of industry and improved knowledge, with a careful eye to economy, and above all, with a breadth of vision, a quality difficult always to exercise in such insular countries as New Zealand and Great Britain. But there arc two friendly contacts or. links of knowledge , and sympathy, which, as your friend and well-wisher, I would urge yoiuto maintain as essential to your lasting welfare. One is contact with your urban population, and their reasonable ambitions, and the other is contact -n ith the farmers of the Old Land. Whereas the Ottawa agreements tended'to emphasise the identity of interest, between all Empire tavmqrsiouisulc Economic : forces have threatened to neutralise them. As these forces •abate and the evidences of abatement,: are appearing in America and . Germany, all pretexts for controversy within the happy circle of the British family of nations will, let us hope, subside. Indeed, I am perfectly certain that even under .the present conditions adjustments can be effected without economic injustice or injury to any experienced and enterprising primary producer in Great Britain of New Zealand.” His Excellency added that one reason that he had declined an invitation to prolong his sojourn in New Zealand with his desire, knowing the agricultural conditions in both countries, to take some small part in the task of reconciling those differences.