UNDESERVED EMPLOYMENT.

Southland Times, Issue 21428, 24 June 1931, Page 3

UNDESERVED EMPLOYMENT.

To the Editor. Sir, —It will take many Southland League dinners, with the after dinner utterances of such financial experts and economists as the Hon. Mr Hawke and Mr Adam Hamilton, to mislead the people as to the cause of this depression. There have been many glib editorial articles in the newspapers on Australian finance and her defaulting to meet her obligations, as dictated by Sir Otto Niemeyer and his German companion Professor Theodor Emanuel Gugenheim Gregory. This was the same Sir Otto Niemeyer who accompanied Mr Bonar Law to the German reparations conference at Paris in 1922 with the plan to give Germany a four years’ moratorium, letting her off all payments during that period and because France refused to agree, Germany defaulted in her payments. Yet when in New Zealand he was presented with a whip and a pipe he said in reply that he hoped he would have in the future occasion to use the pipe more often than the whip. Many people have discovered the cause of this depression without the assistance of our financial experts and economists and an easier subject for Messrs Hawke and Hamilton to deal with would be to explain how this Dominion benefited by their immigration policy. The women in Britain voted very solidly at last election. —I am, “FARMER’S WIFE.” [Our correspondent’s confidence is impressive. The discovery of the actual cause is too important a thing to be kept from the public. We strongly suspect she has been reading a glib, but misleading book of recent date.—Ed. S.T.]