INSULATING NEW ZEALAND

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 101, 2 May 1938, Page 7

INSULATING NEW ZEALAND

PRIME MINISTER’S PLANS CHALLENGED TO REVEAL THEM [ Per ’resa Association.] FEILDING, April 30. “I repeat my challenge to the Government to produce the plans which Mr. Savage says are in existence,” said Mr. H. C. Jenkins, of Wanganui, when speaking at Rangiwahia on Saturday night. “I say they are not. When I issued this challenge at Bulls it was met by the Prime Minister digging up a three-week-old newspaper article in the Sydney Morning Herald and making an ineffectual answer to that. I do not know what his " to my second challenge will am confident that he will r the plans of which he li a. They exist only in the ima ,i of Mr. Savage ana Mr. Nash. Again I say there are no plans for insulating New Zealand from any recession of prosperity in the world. “The gold value of world trade in January was 11.2 per cent. lower than Decembe.’’ The seasonal decline during the last preceding three years was about 6 per cent. During the Izfct quarter of 1937 world production decreased by 10 per cent, compared with the third quarter of the same year. If such plans exist now is Ihe time to reveal them.”