“TURN OF THE TIDE.”
Mr Elliot on Revolution Without Shooting. LON DO ■>. April 3. Mr Walter Elliot (Minister of Agriculture), speaking at the Constitutional Club, said that we had to carry out a revolution in this country better than anybody else, and do it without shooting anybody in the streets. He was speaking on the “ Turn of the Tide,” and claimed that it was flowing strongly throughout the country. “In agriculture,” he said, “ we have found that Heaven helps those who help themselves.” If thev allowed the agricultural industry to go downhill, they w’ere injuring an investment w’hich was not only enormously important to us in peace, but vital to us in war, and no country either in peace or war could afford to allow bread to pass into anyone else’s hands. “You can buy cheapness too dearly,’* he added, “ and a cheapness which leads to two million men being on the dole is one of the ways of doing it. ’ They had striven to give the consumer a square deal. They were entitled to ask the housewife to give the home producer a fair show.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20275, 9 April 1934, Page 1
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