ISOLATED NATIONALISM

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18205, 28 September 1933, Page 4

ISOLATED NATIONALISM

WORLD’S DIFFICULTY DISCUSSION IN COUNCIL (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, last night. Continuing the Address-in-Reply debate in the Legislative Council, the Hon. J. Trevothiek said that many of the nations which had attended the World Conference had been more concerned with their own domestic problems than the welfare of the world as a whole. They forgot, Unit the interests of nations were interdependent, and were endeavoring to live in isolated nationalism. Jn view of the serious phase through which the world was passing, “trade within the Umpire” should lie the slogan of the British commonwealth of nations. Ihe speaker said he was convinced that the small farm scheme was the principal method hv which New Zealand could absorb large numbers of unemployed in the manufacturing industries. Men were being continually displaced by machines. The lion. M. Fagan said that the raising of the exchange rate, had resulted in the transfer of money from one section of the people to- another section. In view of tin- fact that the Imperial Conference of 1931 and the Ottawa Conference had failed, there had been no reason to expect success of the World Conference, where the problems were more dillieult. They had to realise that tho job of rehabilitating New Zealand lay within ilie. Dominion itself. It was misleading to say that there was little suffering in New Zealand from unemployment. as hundreds of families were in a serious plight. The only remedy was to place men at work on standard wages. He advocated building an aerodrome at Bet-one as a means of improving the Dominion’s defence, and in order to provide work for men in the Hull Valley. The lion. It. McCallum said that there were people, in New Zealand who advocated violence and disloyalty, and lie suggested that they should be placed on an island in the lacilic Ocean. He urged the Government to increase the strength of the Legislative Council in order that it could function properly.