RESPITE NEEDED

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18399, 17 May 1934, Page 6

RESPITE NEEDED

MINISTER OP FINANCE WANTS TIME TO THINK (Per Press Association.) BLlvNHfcllM, this day. The lit. Hon. J. G. Coates, accompanied by Mrs. Coates, Miss Barbara; Coates, and a small staff, left Blenheim this morning for Wailu) Gorge, where' he will have “time to think.” Responding to a welcome in Blenheim, tlm Minister said he had left Wellington because he was unable to get time to! think. Interviewers and deputations oh this and that kept coming along and; made it impossible to get a few hours' to oneself to think out important legislation for the coining session. 1 “We are going as far as Waiho for tlie purpose of having two or three days as quiet as possible, so that one can get down on to paper one’s thoughts clearly,” lie said.

The Minister also stated that the future could be regarded with greater confidence than say two years ago. There was a feeling of confidence abroad, “in spite of the fact that some sections of the community say that what the Minister of Finance is doing is all wrong. One has to remember that when the Government has to pass through a difficult period you can't leave it for half a dozen to handle. It must bo for one man to take his courage in his hands and fix his mind, on an objective that lie decides will supply a solution, and march ‘steadily to that objective. If Blondin wore crossing a tight rope it would lie no good for everyone to call out advice to lean this way and that, way, further forward or further back. If he listened he would assuredly fall off, and so it is with the Minister of Finance.”

The party is proceeding south via Westport.