POST-WAR PROBLEMS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17067, 27 July 1917, Page 5

POST-WAR PROBLEMS

(Fbom Otjb Own Cobbespondbht.) WELLINGTON, July 28. Referring this evening to post-war' problems, Mr Malcolm said he wished that the Round Table would deal with this question, and if anyone present had any influence with that publication he hoped he would cable it on the matter. It .would be found that after the war the world would require clothes, and as a result would want our wooL The world, however, might find that it had not the wealth to pay for our wool. If that were so there would bo no real demand for our wool, and tie price ■ in consequence would fall to a low figure. That was the position we had to take into consideration, but some way out of the world's post-war economic difficulties, ho felt sure, would be found. There was a remarkable increase of inventions after the Napoleonic wars. It was something wonderful in England, with the result that tho wealth of the country was increased with an easo and economy never before experienced. Jae thought that the same result would happen after, this war._ Let them imagine the possibilities in motor engines and electricity. It was his belief that there would be such a development in these lines alone that the wealth of the world would be restored to what it was before the war, if not more than it waa