KEEP DESPONDENCY AWAY

Taranaki Daily News, 30 January 1931, Page 6

KEEP DESPONDENCY AWAY

% NEW ZEALAND’S FINE ASSETS GOVERNOR ADVOCATES CAUTION. CLOSER SETTLEMENT SOLUTION By Telegraph-—Press Association. Greymouth, Last Night. Lord Bledisloe paid a tribute to-night to the West Coast scenery, its fiord-' land, glacial and alpine spectacles rendering it God’s garden from which he trusted they would keep the hands of vandals and prevent commercial .greed doin<r here what it had done in Britain. ToUnsts came on the strength, of suca bi tuty, which was a national asset. Paying tribute to his predecessors and the Dominion Press, Lord Bledisloe 6. id he felt pleased if he were regarded as more than a spectacular personage. He intended in his present office, with the sympathy of the Government, to work hard to . carry the country through its present somewhat critical period. It had great undeveloped wealth and human assets, and more Social advantages than any other Empire, country, all of which would tell their tale if the spirit of despondency were kept > away. He referred to the large timber and , coal exports from Greymouth and to the past gold production of . the coast. In view of the present gold shortage and the problem of its distribution to be solved New Zealand could help itself and would by producing gold. ', More and closer settlement .was the solution of New Zealand’s difficulty in absorbing the population it needed. It had the P finest growing climate in the Empire. The need to-day was for pUb-, lie and private economy,. Although the Dominion enjoyed comparatively sound credit abroad care was needed to preserve it and in this all must co-oper*/r 3vith tile Government.