AUSTRALIA’S FUTURE

Taranaki Daily News, 22 September 1931, Page 11

AUSTRALIA’S FUTURE

“OTHERS WORSE OFF.” OPTIMISTIC OUTLOOK. Sir Hugh Poynter, in a recent to the St. John Ambulance Association in Sydney, struck an optimistic note in referring to Australia’s economic position. There were, he said, many worse places than Australia. If Australia had nothing else, it had a good climate, and some countries did not possess even that. He expressed the belief that, in a few years’ time, Australia, and possibly New South Wales, would be held np as models in the matter of the organisation of their finances. While it would be necessary, Sir Hugh added, for Australia to put her shoulder to the wheel, and submit cheerfully to sacrifices, she was very far from being as badly off as some other countries. Practically the whole world was bankrupt at present. “It is quite possible,” he concluded, “that having experienced her troubles earlier, Australia will be through them sooner.” The chairman of the association, Mr. T. H. Henderson, who has lately visited England, somewhat surprised his audience by remarking that Australians were just now living in the happiest part of the world. “You are getting three meals a day and a bed, which is what very many people are not getting to-day in other parts of the world,” he added. “You are better off here than the people of any other part of the world through which I passed.”