BRITAIN’S FUTURE SAFE.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 194, 17 August 1931, Page 1

BRITAIN’S FUTURE SAFE.

Will Pull Through Present Trade Crisis. LONDON, August 15. The Prime Minister, Mr Ramsay MacDonald, told an interviewer at Lossiemouth that he felt happier about the situation. There was no doubt that , the nation would pull through, but the people must be steady and must not listen to anything panicky. The Government means to take action and face the situation, he said. It was not due to financial methods, nor did it mean that anything was wrong with the country, but it was the result of bad world. trade conditions. Everybody would be asked to help to tide the country over the difficulties while trade was reviving. The supplementary burdens and cuts in expenditure would be the smallest possible consistent with balancing the Budget. The political correspondent of the Daily Telegraph ” expresses the opinion that when Parliament is summoned in September, two measures will be introduced, one in the nature of a second Budget providing for new taxation, and the other an Economy Bill, providing cuts in expenditure. PROPOSALS CONSIDERED. Cabinet Committee is Busy with Memoranda. (Received August 17. noon.) RUGBY, August 15. Although the Cabinet Economy Committee adjourned on Thursday until Monday, there has been no slackening in the preparation of plans to deal with the financial emergency. Members of , the committee who are' on holiday in different parts of the country are examining the Treastiry memoranda and other departmental reports on the various proposals under consideration, and Mr Snowden in particular is keeping in close touch with the Treasury. By the time the committee re-assembles on Monday afternoon it is hoped that the proposals in some detail will be ready for consideration. The scheme approved by Cabinet will probably be the subject of discussions with Mr Neville Chamberlain for the Conservatives and Sir Hebert Samuel for the Liberals, and if there is any indication that the opposition parties are prepared to give the proposals their general support, Parliament will be summoned, probably next month. NEW FACTORIES BUILDING. RUGBY. August 14. The annual report of the Chief Inspector of Factories records a decrease in the number of accidents, fatal and non-fatal. The report also refers to the development of industries in and around Greater London. In spite of the general depression new works are being built which provide not only facilities for production of a high order, but for the health, safety and welfare of the workers. The reason why London has suffered less severely from the depression than other areas ,the report suggests, is the great variety of its manufactures. Throughout Britain, however, there are many instances of large expenditures in building better factories, laying down modern machinery, and changing methods so as to increase efficiency and achieve economy in production by labour saving devices and use of new materials.