NEED FOR ECONOMY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17235, 15 April 1930, Page 7

NEED FOR ECONOMY

N.S.W. PREMIER’S PLEA EVERYONE MUST ASSIST SYDNEY, April 14. Speaking on the seriousness of the economic situation to-night in the Sydney Town Hall, the Premier, Mr. Bavin, insisted that there must be a reduction in the costs of production. Every class must work harder and take less. ' It was, he said, not a question of doing this at the expense of the wage earners alone. Everybody must do his bit. Business men, professional men, even men who lived by rents, must take less. How could the country possibly continue to pay the same wages or business the same profits or other reward when the national income had been depleted by £70,000,000 or £80,000,000? Mr. Bavin declared that it was no time for party politics. Any man who sought to make party political capital out of the misery and suffering of thousands of his fellow men and women would be guilty of gross treachery, and no man could possibly be .honest and say pleasant things about the economic conditions of this country at the present moment.