BRITISH GOVERNMENT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 256, 26 September 1933, Page 7

BRITISH GOVERNMENT.

MR MACDONALD’S APPEAL. UNITY IN SUPPORT. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Sept. 23. The Prime Minister, Mr Ramsay MacDonald, appealed for continued unity in support of the National Government at a public meeting at Kilmarnock last night. He claimed that the strong position of Great Britain, both financially and industrially, was the result of the Government’s work during a period of extereme difficulty. Mr MacDonald pointed to the rise which was taking place in wholesale prices, describing this as one of the most scientific ways of increasing both the demand for labour and the wages given to labour, and pointed out that meanwhile purchasing power had also been maintained. Trade was showing many hopeful signs, he said, and British currency had earned the confidence and respect of the world. There had also been a fall in unemployment of nearly half a million since the beginning of this year. He said the Government was working to increase world consumption and to secure by various means a proper share for Britain of that incmase.