FUTURE AT STAKE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18110, 9 June 1933, Page 5

FUTURE AT STAKE

THE WORLD CONFERENCE LORD BLEDISLOE’S VIEW NEW ZEALAND’S INTEREST {Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. The significance to New Zealand of the forthcoming World Economic Conference, and the dependanee of Empire prosperity on the outcome of -the .conference,- were stressed by Lord Bledisloc at an Empire Ball held by the Victoria League.

“Next Monday r there will take place in London the most epoch-making conference the world lias ever seen," said His Excellency. “It is on the eve of the World Economic Conference that you are holding this Empire Ball. I want at this time to make a particular appeal to All Empire enthusiasts to bear in sympathetic remembrance the Old Country, which is now holding greater responsibility than ever in her illustrious past. On what will happen at" the conference will depend, for good or ill, the future of the world. “Great as is the responsibility which the Old Country is carrying upon her shoulders in endeavoring to point a •way to .a'more prosperous world, it has boon enormously eased Iby the fact thiU another gr'eirt AiiglodSuxqn 'Power is standing shoulder to shoulder with her at this conference, and the best guarantee that the conference will achieve a great measure of success is that the two great English-speaking nations of the world cannot afford it to be .a failure.

“I make this appeal," said His Excellency, “because you must bear in mind that there is no country in the whole of the great British Empire that depends so preponderantly on the 'prosperity of the Old Land, and the employment in her various industries of British workpeople, as this Dominion of New Zealand. If the British workpeople, as a result of unemployment, have no money in their pockets, i will be very difficult, owing to the dependanee of New Zealand’s primary .oducts on the world markets, especially the British market, for the people of this country to regain prosperity.

“If ever there was a time for us to show sympathy with the Old Land, that time is now," Lord Bledisloe concluded. “May I ask you to remember the Old Country in the next few 'crucial weeks, and may I appeal to those of you who have the same faith as I have in that Great Ruler of our destinies, to put up a prayer for the ■conference's success."

GREAT SIGNIFICANCE NEED FOR ADJUSTMENTS “Do we realise the significance and importance of the World Economic Conference, the result of which is going to influence all our liyes, young and old alike'” said the Mayor, Mr. A. E. Mansford, when speaking at the opening of the new assembly hall at the Palmerston North Technical School. “Our system of currency amUeredit, if civilisation is to last, . must tie operated along scientific lines, according to the production of wealth. “To-day a very delicate piece ot machinery—the monetary machine of the world—is breaking down. Several adjustments have been tried, in recent years, but still the momentum of this machine has been getting slower and slower, and the conference which commences next weok will have to consider just which lover in this delicate machine is to be adjusted and controlled. Only the right adjustment of those levers means success; the wrong lever means failure and, perhaps, destruction. “The result of this conference therefore means: Is civilisation as wo know it to go on or sink into oblivion? Let us hope that those attending the conference will be permitted by the great Architect of the Universe to note the errors of the past and see the reasons which have caused nations to fall into error, and aid us to succeed where others have failed.” PROTECTING DELEGATES SPECIAL POLICE GUARD LONDON, June 8. Extraordinary precautions arc being taken to guard the Economic Conference delegations, many of whom are bringing their own police officials, whose activities will be dovetailed with a general Scotland Yard protection scheme.