17 SEPTEMBER 1932, Page 28

A GREAT TASK.

And all the time the problem has grown in intensity and complexity. The population increases and emigration is at a standstill. Yet the people have to be fed and clothed and the task cannot be accomplished for long unless new wealth is created and the trade balance is restored. Here then, is not merely a problem but a task to be achieved which if its stupendous character and momentous issues at stake were sufficiently realized, would surely unite the nation in fighting against forces more insidious, but certainly more destructive, than those with which we were in conflict but a few years ago and which were overcome because the nation was then united and acted as one man and with one purpose.

ARTHUR W. KIDDY.