MASTERY OVER NATURE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18539, 27 October 1934, Page 4

MASTERY OVER NATURE

ANOTHER MILESTONE COMPLETION OF WAITAKI {Vor i’remi Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. Mr. M. J. Savage, Leader of the Opposition, speaking at the Waitaki celebrations to-day, said the ceremony marked another milestone in the history of man’s mastery oyer the forces of Nature in this Dominion. It remained to be seen whether or not man would maintain that mastery, and make available to the rank and tile of the people the benefits of machine and science, or whether these modern processes were to continue to multiply production and, at the same time, destroy the market in which the products of industry should be sold. They needed more than stored-up electric energy. They needed some plan by which that wonderful servant of mankind might be harnessed to modern machinery for the purpose of producing essentials which constitute the high standard of living for the people. if they failed in making plans which would ensure that the benefits of these modern processes would find their way to the homes of the people, all the results of the tireless efforts of scientist and investor would have missed their mark.

What was accomplished in the air by a great British - airman and his colleague during recent days had been, to a large extent, carried out in industry, and it. seemed as if these wofkmen, including Hie fanners whose labor was responsible for that wonderful advance in, product ion, were worse off to-day than they were before that advance was made.

Ho hoped that ihis vast store of energy which had been officially opened, and which had been made possible by the workmen and engineers, would be the forerunner of still greater things, and that a grateful country would see to it that the men whose labor had made it possible would be found something better in future than a relief job in return for their services.