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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 153, 14 June 1932, Page 7

Mr C. O. Morse, chairman of the Hawke’s Bay Hospital Board, was reelected to that position yesterday afternoon for the ensuing two years. The decision was arrived at on the motion of Mr H. V. Hoadley, seconded by Mr C. H. Williams. Mr Walter J. Watson, a well-known Christchurch business man, brings back from a recent trip to Sydney and Brisbane a story refreshingly different from those of the people who can sec nothing but gloom on the other side of tho Tasman (states the Christchurch “Star”). ‘‘Business is brisk in Brisbane,” said Mr Watson. ‘‘They did not feel tho depression there to the same extent as it. was felt in Sydney. But even in Sydney now the. outlook is decidedly optimistic. The Stevens Ministry has been in office only a short time, but already it has built up a favourable record of service to the State. Work is being found for 30,000 men immediately. A goo.l indication of recovery is furnished by the fact that the Standard Portland Cement Corporation is reopening its works straight away, and will absorb another 250 men. Shopping concessions have been restored on the trams, and notices ordering retirement to 900 civil servants who have reached the age of 60 have been win, drawn.”