EMPIRE FARMERS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18551, 10 November 1934, Page 8

EMPIRE FARMERS

ADJUSTING DIFFICULTIES GOVERNOR’S ADVICE FRIENDLY CONTACTS URGED (Fer Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, last night._ In his -address at a luncheon given in his honor at the Show... to-day, t)ie Governor-General, Lord Bledislo.e, emphasised the. fact-.- that New Zealand farmers should endeavor to , maintain friendly and . close contact -with the. farmers r.l’ the Old Land. His Excellency expressed the confident opinion that any differences among farmers in the Empire could soon be adjusted. “What has the future, in - store, for you?” His .Excellency asked, when speaking of the .courage, and roso.jrrcefulncss shown by New- Zealand-farmers in their recent- difficulties,- “You have the pick of tho Empire-- territories, Nature's, richest gift. Your sample of humanity, .Briton • and native--- iso unsurpassed elsewhere. - Your destiny is what you choose to make it, with tho help of industry *and improved- knowledge, with a mieful '.eye- to economy, and above all) with a breadth-of-vision, a-quality difficult always to. exercise in such insular countries as New Zealand and Great Britain.

“But there are two friendly contacts or links of, knowledge .and sympathy, which, as your friend and well-wisher, 1 urge you to maintain as essential to your lasting welfare. One is 'contact with your urban population, and their reasonable ambitions, and the other* is contact with the, fanners of the Old Land. “Whereas the ..Ottawa-•-agreements tended to , emphasise the identity of interest- between all Empire- Mariners, out 4 side economic forces have - threatened to - neutralise them.'-As these forces abate, and the evidence* of : abatement are appearing in America -and -Germany-, all pretexts for controversy Within the happy circle of the British family .ol nations; will, let up hbpe, subside. - Indeed, I am perfectly, .certain, that., even under the'/'prosejit-coiidifionK adjustments earn he effected without economic injustice or.injury to any experienced and enterprising, primary -producer in Great Britain or New Zealand.” ;• His Excellency added that one reason that he had declined an invitation to prolong his sojourn in. New Zealand was his desire, knowing the-agricultural conditions in both countries, to take fume small part in the task of reconciling those differences.