SACRIFICE OF WAR

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 59, Issue 4218, 1 December 1939, Page 5

SACRIFICE OF WAR

PEOPLE CANNOT BE AS WELL OFF AS BEFORE. MR NASH’S STATEMENT. A warning that the people generally could not be so well off during the war as before it was issued by the Minister of Finance and Marketing, Mr Nash, in the course of his address to the conference of the Dairy Board, in Wellington on Wednesday. “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 that we will all have to have less,” Mr Nash said. “We cannot have products that are not there and that 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, in 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 that 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. But the price that we will pay for products will go up in much greater degree than the price we have received for our products. That is the sacrifice we have to make.”

With the Divisional Cavalry and the Engineers proceeding to the Waiouru camp, near Taihape, for advance training at the week-end, the artillery will be the only unit at Hopu Hopu.