DOMINIONS PROBLEMS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 229, 28 September 1933, Page 6

DOMINIONS PROBLEMS

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL VIEWS. addkjsss-in-keply debate [ Per Press Association I WELLINGTOA, Sept. 27. The Legislative Council met at 2.30 Three days’ Leave of’ absence granted Lu the Hon. >Sir James Allen un account of urgent private business. Continuing the Adures-in-Keply debate, the .Hun. J. Trevithick said that the country was indebted to the Prune Alinister and the Minister tor Industries and Cuuimerce tor the way in which, they had safeguarded the iiiteicsts of the primary producers during the agitation for a quota on the Dominion’s dairy exports. Many uf the nations which had attended the Wurlu Economic and Alonecary Conference seemed to be mure concerned with their own domestic problems than with tho welfare of the world as a whole. They forgot that the interests of the nations were intci'depcudeul, and were endeavouring to live in nationalistic isolation, bucli an attitude would only drive the world into a greater statu of unrest. Trade within the .Empire would have to become tiro slogan of the Empire, particularly in view of the serious phase through which the world was passing. Air. J. Trevithick suit! that Great Britain had been flooded with the goods of other nations which did not desire reciprocal trade, and she had been, forced to rectify the position. He was convinced that the small farm scheme was the principal method of economic solution fur New Zealand, as the secondary industries could not hope to absorb the great numbers of tho unemployed, in the manufacturing industries men were being continually displaced by machines. The primary products were the only source by which New Zealand could obtain the means to continue her economic life. If they acknowledged that the limit of primary production had been reached, they acknowledged that the cud of progress had been reached. They wanted new markets and new fields of enterprise.

Conference Failures Hon. AL Fagan said that tho raising of the exchange had resulted in the transfer of money from one section of the people to another section. In view of the fact that the Imperial Conference of 1931 and the Ottawa Confer ence had failed, there had been no reason to expect the success of the World Conference, waere problems were more difficult. They had to realise that the job of rehabilitating New Zealand lay within the Dominion itself. It was misleading to say there was little suffering in New Zealand from unemployment, as hundreds of families were in a serious plight. Tho only remedy was to place men at work on standard wages. He advocated the building of an aerodrome at. Pctone as a means of improving the Dominion’s defence, and in order to provide work for men in the Hutt .Valley. Hon. R. McCallum said there were people in New Zealand who advocated violence and disloyalty, and he suggested that they should be placed on an island iu the Pacific. He urged tho Government to increase the strength of the Legislative Council in order that it could function properly.