PREMIER’S HOPES

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 71, 23 February 1937, Page 14

PREMIER’S HOPES

FUTURE OF DOMINION. Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, Feb. 22. The Prime Minister (Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage) and the Minister of Labour (Hon. H. T. Armstrong) were accorded a civic reception this evening, being enthusiastically received by about 2000 people. Mr Savage was led through the main body of the hall by two pipers, to the cheers of the audience and the singing of “For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow.” t Mr Savage’s address was mainly on the lines of that given In Christchurch. He said that when he visited London he would 6peak at the Imperial Conference as he had spoken to the people that night He would tell Britain what he and the people of New Zealand thought about modern problems and. the way they thought a new situation might be brought about. In his concluding remarks Mr Savage said that before two years had passed there would be a transformation in New Zealand that even the most optimistic among them had never dreamt of in the days that had gone. Mr Armstrong, in his address, said 20,000 fewer men were on the unemployment pay roll than 12 months ago in spite of the fact that some 9000 or 10,000 more had been registered for benefits that were previously denied them. The Government had gone a long way towards cleaning up the unemployment mess. Some of the reforms which would be advocated at the conference at Geneva were already in operation here and in these matters New Zealand could be of great assistance to the other countries of the world.