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Northland Age, Volume 3, Issue 14, 5 January 1934, Page 1

Mr. Lloyd George : “The era of conferences is over. What is the lesson to be drawn from all these conferences ? It is that a world so drenched with fear as the result of the war is not prepared to surrender any of its protective weapons : in arms, in tariffs, or in restrictions. Ideplore it, but the Government must recognise it as a fact and build its policy on that basis until there is a change in the psychology of nations. The open market has gone as completely as open warfare. It is a war of trenches, with every country building up trenches against every other. As a result of the World Economic Conference, not a sandbag has been removed from the parapet, nor a strand of barbed wire broken.”

NEW SOCIAL ORDER OUT OF ECONOMIC COLLAPSE | SEE not a collapsing civilisation, but the possibility of a new social order with greater potentialities for good than any the people of this earth have yet known. Human and social values will be paramount ; money will fall into its proper place as a mere medium of exchange, instead of dominating goods and services. In modern and i? ,r i ustrial craft the worker has to become a cog in the machine, but it is a very wonderful machine, and it enables the working girl to have things which Queen Elizabeth never dreamed of possessing. Everybody is important if they are doing the job they arc set to do to the best of their ability. Of first importance is education. We must watch our educational systems, and not only watch this system but control it. Miss M. Bondfield, former British Minister of Labour.