ECONOMIC CONFERENCE

Wairarapa Daily Times, 10 June 1933, Page 2

ECONOMIC CONFERENCE

PRAYERS FOR SUCCESS. AUCKLAND, Friday. The significance to New Zealand of the forthcoming World Economic Conference, and the dependence of Empire prosperity on the outcome of the Conference, was stressed by Lord Bledisloe at an Empire Ball held by the Victoria League. “Next Monday there will take place in London the most epoch-making conference the world has ever seen,” said lbs Excellency. “It is on the eve of the World Economic Conference that you are holding this Empire ball. I want at this time to make a particular appeal to all Empire enthusiasts to bear in sympathetic remembrance the Old Country, which is now holding a greater responsibility than ever 'in her illustrious past. On wliat will happen at the conference will depend for good or ill the future of the world. Great as is . the responsibility which the try is carrying upon her shoulders iny endeavouring to point the way to a more prosperous world, it has been enormously eased by the fact that another great Anglo-Saxon •’Power is standing shoulder to shou!der||vith her at this Conference, and a "guarantee that the Conference will achieve a great measure of success is that the two great Fngl'sh-sneaking nations of the world cannot afford it to be a failure. I make this appeal because you must bear in mind that there is no country in the whole of the great British Empire that depends so preponderantly on the prosperitv of the Old Land and the employment in her various industries of British work-people as this Dominion of New Zealand. If British work-people as a result of unemployment have no money in their pockets, it will be very difficult, owing to the denendenee of New Zealand’s primary on the world markets, and espeTally the British market, for the people of this country to regain prosperity. If.ever there was a time for us to show sympathy with the Old Land, that time is now,” Lord Bledisloe said In “May I ask you to remember the Olfl| Country in the next few eruciial weeks'U and may I appeal to those of you who have the same faith as I do in that Great Ruler of our destiny, to put up a prayer for the success of the Conference? ’ ’ —(P.A.)