DOMINION’S FUTURE

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1076, 13 September 1930, Page 6

DOMINION’S FUTURE

LORD BLEDISLOE OPTIMISTIC N.Z.’S GREAT ASSETS Press Association WELLINGTON, Friday. In expressing himself as a profound optimist as far as the destinies and prosperity of New Zealand were concerned, tho Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe, affirmed his opinion that with such great assets as this country possessed, it would emerge sooner than any other from the present period of depression. I-lis remarks were made at a. smoke concert of the 'Wellington Commercial Travellers aud \Y ar eh ouse me n s Ass ocia tio n. If one man suffered, all others suffered with him, and this, lie suggested, was the text above all others that every man. woman and child in the Dominion would have to make a guiding rule of their lives during tho next two or three years. Thrift also would have to be practised. We could not afford to abandon the habit of thrift, which had mad© the old pioneers the successes they were. “There are a few clouds scudding across tho sunshine of commercial and industrial prosperity today,” said his Excellency, “but so far as this country is concerned. I am a profound optimist. As time goes on, you will find that the qualities inherent in the best typo of New Zealander, and the great assets you have in your incomparable climate and potentially fertile soil will enable the Dominion to emerge sooner than any other country from the tempopary slough of despond. “Pessimism was said to be the handmaid of national decay. Alight I suggest to you all,” his Excellency concluded amidst laughter, “that in these difficult times when money is not too plentiful, that you all take care to see that purchasers get good values for their money. Aly own commercial experience is that what is cheapest is not always the best value, either in-goods or in brains. If you want the best, you must expect to pay a reasonable price for it.”