CORRESPONDENCE HARDSHIPS AND SACRIFICE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17949, 29 November 1932, Page 9

CORRESPONDENCE

HARDSHIPS AND SACRIFICE

(To the Editor of the Herald.) Sir,—lii your leading article of Monday night’s issue you state “the object of much of the recent legislation, of course, has been to avoid calling on the people to make sacrifices and suffer hardships, but until it is realised that sacrifices and hardships are an inevitable concomitant of a depression, and until they are accepted with the best grace possible, progress is virtually hopeless.” In another column you print an account by the Rev. Mr. Goring of the hardships the single men are undergoing, without sufficient boots and clothes, in the unemployment camps. As. one of your readers I should be interested to learn what other hardships and sacrifices the people of New Zealand should have inflicted on them as a reward for practically doubling their production of real wealth this last ten years? Can R be that you mean that thousands of hard-working farmers should be ruined off their farms into which they have put their life-time’s work and savings, and the farms sold to the highest bidder. We can imagine the bidding wouldn t be high. Sir Harold Beauchamp, in the same issue of the Herald, is reported as saying, after a visit to Canada, that lie had never found the people in such a depressed condition, but there were wonderful opportunities for those with money to buy gilt-edged investments. What a wonderful opportunity there would be here also if thousands ot farms, stations, and bouses were to be picked up at the .buyer’s own price. “What a wonderful opportunity one can imagine the lion saying, let loose in a paddock of lambs.—l am, etc., _