TURN OF THE TIDE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 14 January 1932, Page 4

TURN OF THE TIDE.

The last week or two has been made happy in Masterton by a revulsion or feeling from that depression that has held the spirits of most of us so long in thrall. We sense the lifting or rue gloom, the coming of a hope that at last the long, long lane has reached its turning, and that the road on which we are now called to tread will run less arduously beneath our feet. And there is reason for this optimism. The omens are propitious, nor are their auguries by any means local in their application. If not throughout the civilised world, at least throughout the British Empire the same heartening breeze is blowing, and the straws it carries in its breath show clearly that the direction when it comes is favourable. The effect so far may not be large; but it is enough. It’s degree is but a minor matter; the great thing is that it is visible. But of its existence there can be no question. It is reflected in the Stock Exchanges and the increased activities in commerce and industry. It is reflected in the plethoric conditions which have prevailed of late in market and in shop, and it is seen, above all, perhaps, in the smile with which we greet one another to-day —a smile born of the common thought that now indeed the tide is on the turn.