WARNING GIVEN TO NATION

Southland Times, Issue 23987, 30 November 1939, Page 8

WARNING GIVEN TO NATION

STATEMENT MADE BY MR NASH “IMPOSSIBLE TO GET SAME QUANTITIES OF GOODS” (United Press Association) WELLINGTON, November 29. A warning that the people generally could not be as well off during the war as before was issued by the Minister of Finance and Marketing (the Hon. W. Nash) in an address to the conference of the Dairy Board. “Irrespective of the sterling funds—and they will affect the position—if this war continues it will be impossible to get the same quantities of goods as before, so we Will all have to have less, Mr Nash said “We cannot have products, that are not there and which it is impossible to get. It is impossible, no matter how clever anyone may be, to distribute more products than are produced, .and it is not possible under the existing circumstances to get the same volume of products that we had before September 1. We have, stated that the United Kingdom can have all of our products it wants, even if. we can get better prices in other countries.'We have sold our products at a given- price. That prevents the price rising for the period of the contract. .Out of that price, we will have to pay for products which will go up in much greater degree than the price we have recvieved for our products. That is the sacrifice we have to make.”