"BLUE FUNK"

North Otago Times, Volume C, Issue 13146, 29 August 1914, Page 6

"BLUE FUNK"

rABOUR MiJP.'ls DENUNCIATION." tfA'NQANUI, August 26, In the couislo, oi a speech'at the i tlouvillO'patriotic meeting last cvenmg / MrW, A, Yciti.li, M.P., icieiicil in \igoious tonus 'to the exhibition oi "blue iiijilc't'oii.'tlie'pilvtol. lUj.cptaiu nervous type bi busings man loiuul in dilleient 1 paiN oi tin 1 Dominion just now. Somo oi them, he said, weio o\ en airaul to pay: oil: their orduinry dobts Avliile.-'the vcnsiSi lasted, because they wo. til raid they: would have:no-money : Icit land got no more. •> There wero peoI'ple witlr money to invest, and good investments were waiting thorn, but they' kept tlicir money tied up; That spirit, it peisisti'd in, MJ!> going to uuso us tlio very trouble we. wanted to avoid. There was not the least occasion for it. New Zeaianil .wits goiiig to reap a big liiinucinl benefit l> v v the war. The trado routes wore open,'and we were going to get gopil. pri.tas for foodstuffs and, wool, Noiie.ofour >yealth li!id runaway. Every man, woman,' and child iii Ncfr Zealand was .worth just at much now as before the war. /"iris advice to every Uusiness man would be that, while showing tlio same' reasonable caution as at any. otheritiinc, Ji6 should keep aVmaiiy dfiiis : ciiiploye(?s as possible in employment. That'M'as the surest way'to avoid disaster.' . .' -

; lie had raid'iu the liowspapoi's, said •'Mr '■Ycitc.ii/' oI ; u.'iiiau 'who hail given £2OO to tiie Patriotic Fluid, aiid immediately afterwards dismissed several of his cmployccs-in order to pay for it. A man'liye' that Was ho patriot at all. lie would lmve been better for his country ii ! lie Jiadj retaijiiod the' money and kept his 'men' going with it. They should give up croacking about the tremendous distress' there was going to be in New Zealand..'There was not .going to be any such thing." The country was still here, and it would-produce all the food its. people' waiitedjiind utter uoitsciisb to.snv/'U' eould'iio't/;,

greatest burden.'we have," lie concluded,', "are a few Inisiiiess pessimists;- AVe want to get-: rid of those, croakers, and replace tlicih witlii ii few cheery optimists." . .' iy