MARKED REVIVAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17949, 29 November 1932, Page 4

MARKED REVIVAL

AUSTRALIAN RECOVERY REV. DR. KELLY’S REMARKS The Rev. Dr. Kelly, ex-editor of the “Tablet,”' who recently arrived in Dunedin from Ireland, where he assisted at the Eucharistic Congress as a member of the suite of the Archbishop of Sydney, says he found that Australia had made a wonderful recovery during his absence. The revival was not so marked in Sydney as in Melbourne. and Adelaide was even better Hum Melbourne. New Zealand, Dr. Kelly said, was evidently deeper in the mire than it was when he left in February. Australia had tackled her big problems seriously and fearlessly: New Zealand had not. “Wo were still extravagant an ill over-governed —at what a cost to our million and a half people.Australia is well ‘round the corner, ’ while New Zealand had not even come in sight of its ‘ corner. ’ ”

Regarding Ireland, Dr. Kelly said tiiat. he believed Mr. Do Valera’s economic policy was right, just as he believed that'Mr. Do Valera was wrong whoa he split the country in 1921. The present trials were hitting some, but by no means all the Irish farmers, very hard, but in the end an agricultural Ireland would be far better for all than as a grass ranch in which cattle were fattened for the English market. Ife believed that in spite of the present hardships, Mr. De Valera would go hack to power if there were nu election to-morrow.