New Year Messages

Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19463, 31 December 1934, Page 7

New Year Messages

FROM GOVERNOR-GENERAL OUTLOOK DEFINITELY BRIGHTER. / New VISTAS OF prosperity. AUCKLAND, Monday. The Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe, In a New Year Message, issued from Gov'/rnment House last night, says:— “ Lady Bledisloe and I greet you all'with sincerity and friendship on the threshold of a New Year and cordially nope and pray ■that it may bring you health, happiness and prosperity, i \ v . “Economic" tribulation has darkened the horizon, dnring the last three years and brought into " many a home, as we are sadly • conscious, impoverishment and a waning nope for the future. But the outlook is definitely brighter, , and there is good reason ( for believing that this New Year will open up new vistas of prosperity, improved employment and industrial revival. “ Our message therefore to you —pakeha and Maori alike—of all classes and occupations is one of *>• gladness and of hope, conscious of your own rich inheritance In this land of sunshine, abundant future opportunity and great natural resources, and confident of the capacity of your virile and resourceful manhood and womanhood to utilise and develop them for the lasting welfare of your nation and yourselves. It is with these personal hopes and convictions that we wish you.all from our hearts a happy and prosperous New Year.” Lord Bledisloe is to broadcast his New Year message from Station IYA at two minutes past 10 to-night, the message being relayed to the other YA stations. SIGNS OF RECOVERY. CLEAR AND DECISIVE. HON. J. G. COATES’ MESSAGE. AUCKLAND, Monday. Right Hon. J. G. Coates, Minister of Finance, in a New Year message'says: “After three years and more, of world-wide depression and anxiety; we have seen during 1934 clear and decisive signs of recovery. 1 "The improvement has not been so spectacular or’ so rapid as might be wished; the problems that remain still to ; be .solved are such that we cannot yet slacken our efforts; ibut, at the .close of one year and the opening of . another, we in 'New Zealand are well ''’entitled to feel gratitude and confidence. . “Nobody can have a part In government nowadays without being impressed by the courage and patience shown by our people in standing up to their difficulties. Those on whom the burden af the depression has fallen severely and whose misfortune it lias been the task of the Government in some measure to mitigate, have revealed reserves of strength that augur well for the future of our young country. r Trade Agreements.

“The Indications are that' the practice of economic isolation, which is characteristic of many nations to-day, will have its repercussions in New Zealand. During- the past few years, 'because Great Britain has been our main market, we have been spared the rationing schemes and the imposition of embargoes which have been the lot of* other countries -with wider spread markets. But if Germany is to take •our wool, or Belgium our apples, it may be that we shall have to continue reciprocal trade agreements which . will affect adversely our imports from other countries. “I have touched only the fringe of the problem, but it is one which will / have to be resolutely faced in the very near future. While other countries are becoming increasingly active, we cannot afford to sit back and hope that the traditional policy of the past of r letting events look after themselves will carry us through. -If we have eyes to see we can note the inevitable world • trends and sqt up the machinery which will lit in with our observations. It is, in' this way that we can hope for success. His Majesty’s Jubilee. "The new year is to be marked by the jubilee celebrations of Their Ma- -• jcsties’ reign. We are thus reminded that it was on the occasion oif two earlier jubilees—those of 1887 and 1897 —that the practice of British Imperial consultation and co-operation was formally established. Two later conferences —in 1902 and 1911—were associated with coronations. There .have been many changes in our problems and in the world outlook since then, but -these changes have been in the direction of making Imperial cooperation ever more necessary in the common interests of all parts of the Empire.

“In our Imperial relations, be they economic or otherwise. It is impossible to contemplate failure. At the same lime it is possible, without too great misgivings, to admit that there are immediate and unsolved problems that call for attention;; for we are aware, however dilllcult the obstacles may seem, that, they can be dealt with in a spirit of goodwill and cooperation. That, I think, is the keynote of (lie attitude which as a country we should adopt in entering upon the New Year. To all of our citizens.l extend my best wishes for the New Year.”