NEED FOR RESTRAINT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18581, 15 December 1934, Page 5

NEED FOR RESTRAINT

EMPIRE RELATIONS MR. MACDONALD’S ADVICE UNDERSTANDING WANTED (Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN, this day. The need for the greatest restraint and understanding between New Zealand and Great Britain, if there was to be the maintenance of the excellent co-operation which had done so much to benefit New Zealand, Great Britain, and the Empire as a -whole, was stressed by Mr Malcolm MacDonald, Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Dominion Affairs.

Mr MacDonald and his sister, Miss Sheila MacDonald, were accorded a civic reception, the Mayor, the Rev. E. T. 'Cox, presiding over a large and representative attendance. During his reply to the welcome, Mr MacDonald, who touched briefly on various aspects of economic conditions in Great Britain, declared that the world difficulties would not be overcome if they were going to regard oveT-production as the root of the jroutjlc,, which, die maintained/ was under-consumption. They had come to New. Zealand partly as trippers to see tho country themselves, and-partly as students to learn something of the country, its life, and its people, said Mr MacDonald. They had seen something of the sheep country, of fruit-producing country, dairy farms, and .areas where people were going in- for mixed farming. He stressed the fact that an interchange of visits.of people from New Zealand to Great Britain, and from Great Britain to New Zealand, was going to play a more important part in keeping inter-imperial relations sweet. They were at the beginning of a difficult period in inter-imperial relations. Occasionally those ip New Zealand did something to annoy people at Home, and occasionally peoplo at Home did something to annoy those out here. They had to show the greatest restraint and understanding of each other if they were to maintain, as he knew they could, that excellent co-operation which had done so much to benefit. New Zealand, Great Britain, and the Empire as a whole.