A Confirmed Optimist

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7007, 17 November 1932, Page 7

A Confirmed Optimist

Produce More; Spend Less

GOVERNOR-GENERAL SEES BRIGHTER FUTURE

POr Press Association,

LEVIN, Last Night,

The Governor-General and Lady Bledisloc paid an official visit to Levin to-day and were welcomed by tho Alayor (Air. P. W. Goldsmith), the county chairman (Air. G. A. Alonk) and the member for the district (Air. J. Linklater) at a large public meeting in the gardens. Their Excellencies also visited the school and made a motor tour of tho district.

In the course of a reference to the position of the primary industries Lord Bledisloc said there was no reason why the good dairy farmer should look depressed to-day. It was quito true that tho level of prices of butter and cheese in the Old Country had fallen, but a good farmer by the application of scientific ,and more intensive methods was enabled to hold his own. Ho could obtain not a paltry SOlbs. of butterfat to tne aero which was the Dominion average but 200, 000 or even 3501b5. per acre. His Excellency' said he was well aware that those engaged in producing meat and wool were having a very difficult time, “but these times will surely pass away and will do so tho more quickly if we have courage and hope and arc prepared to faco realities.” Ho confessed that during tho first six months of his sojourn in New Zealand ho was gravely concerned in regard to the future of the Dominion and its solvency'. He had no fears today, though the position was far worse than it was then because the people now realised the position both here and in tho Old Country. Prosperiy induced a certain measure of extravagance and people did not realiso the dangerous trend on which they' were embarked. To-day tho position was infinitely better and largely because the Government had taken its courage in both hands and, however distasteful it might be, had made it clear that to avoid national insolvency and bring about an early return of properity nations like businessmen must do business on business lines and be careful not to live beyond their means. The whole country to-day had to concentrate on that and stabilise the position without depending on borrowed money till better times came. He was a confirmed optimist so far as the future of this country was concerned.