COMPLETE CO-OPERATION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23202, 28 May 1937, Page 6

COMPLETE CO-OPERATION

ALL SECTIONS OF INDUSTRY THE GOVERNMENT'S AMBITION THE FARMERS' HELP SOUGHT (Per United Press Association) DANNEVIRKE, May 27. In an address to the Farmers' Interprovincial Conference to-day the Acting Prime Minister (Mr P. Fraser) assured delegates that the Government desired the complete co-operation of the farmers and all sections of industry in endeavouring to further the progress of the Dominion, and it desired the helpful co-operation of all useful and right-thinking people. At the last general election the people made their choice when the Labour Party was returned.

Mr Fraser referred to the planks of the party which the Government was implementing. It intended to honour its promises so far as was humanly possible. All sections of the people should work amicably together for the betterment of the country, as a whole. There must be an absence of perpetual antagonism. They must endeavour to become members of one brotherhood, as desired by St. Paul. It was the desire of the Government that not one section of the people should benefit at the expense of any other section. It wanted all to sjjare in the general prosperity of the country and distribution of the wealth of the country. The Government wanted to see everyone adequately recompensed for his industry. There might be room for a serious and honest difference of opinion as to the measures adopted by the Government, but it would at all times be willing to give serious consideration to any proposals which would be an improvement upon the present measures, particularly in relation to the guaranteed prices. It would be disastrous for the country if there was antagonism between various sections of the people. It was essential for all to work amicably in the best interest of the country as a whole.