SYMPATHY WITH OLD LAND

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19511, 9 June 1933, Page 6

SYMPATHY WITH OLD LAND

ON EVE OF WORLD CONFERENCE. APPEAL BY LORD BLEDISLOE. By Telegraph—Press Association AUCKLAND, June 8. The significance to New Zealand of the forthcoming World Economic Conference, and the dependence of Empire prosperity on the outcome of the Conference, was stressed by Lord Bledisloe at the Empire ball held by the Victoria League. “Next Monday there will take place in London the most epoch-making Conference the world has ever seen,” said His Excellency. “It is on the eve of the World Economic Conference you are holding this Empire ball. I want at this time to make a particular appeal to all Empire enthusiasts to bear in sympathetic remembrance the Old Country, which is now holding a greater responsibility than ever in her illustrious past. On what will happen at the conference will depend, for good or ill, the future of the world. Great as is the responsibility which the Old Country is carrying upon her shoulders in endeavouring to point the way to a more prosperous world, it has been enormously eased by the fact that another great Anglo-Saxon Power is standing shoulder to shoulder with her at this conference. A guarantee that the conference will achieve a great measure of success is that the two great English-speaking nations of the world cannot afford it to be a failure. I make this appeal,” said His Excellency, “because you must bear in mind that there is no country in the whole of the Great British Empire that depends so preponderantly on the prosperity of the Old Land and the employment in her various industries of British workpeople, as this Dominion of New Zealand. If British workpeople, as a result of unemployment, have no money in their pockets, it will be very difficult, owing to the dependence of New Zealand’s primary products on the world’s markets, especially the British market, for people in this country to regain prosperity. If ever there was a time for us to show sympathy with the old land, that time is now.”

Lord Bledisloe concluded: “May I ask you to remember the Old Country in the next few crucial weeks, and may I appeal to those of you who have the same faith as I do in that Great Ruler of our Destinies to put up a prayer for the conference’s success.”