VALUE OF AGRICULTURE

Waikato Times, Volume 105, Issue 17787, 12 August 1929, Page 9

VALUE OF AGRICULTURE

M. HERRIOT WARNS FRANCE. LESSON OF BRITISH NEGLECT. M. Herriot, a former Premier of France, in a speech at Lyons, urged the country to perserve her agricultural character. He said—“lt is too dangerous for any people to have only one industry to fall back upon, as it is bound to be exposed to crises. See what is happening to a great neighbouring nation, whose troubles we must share because she is suffering in some degree for the loyalty with which she came to our help and stood by us to the end during the war. “Great Britain is fighting against a terrible burden of unemployment. She will be obliged to undertake a tremendous effort to re-establish her economic equilibrium. # , “How much happier would she be if like ourselves, she could count upon abundance of agricultural resources to supplement her industrial wealth, so threatened by the development of other nations and of her own Dominions.

“Great Britain will triumph over her difficulties in the same manner as she has done in the past, by her strength and perseverance, but not without labour and suffering.”