If a Storm Should Come,

or a volcanic eruption should sink the island, and all its occupants went to heaven, we should say out of the fulness of our hearts page 18 "Amen." (Laughter and applause). If money is wealth they had it, But wealth is in the bone and sinew; wealth is in the springy step of yon healthy man and sprighty woman; wealth is in the labourer's arm and head, and in the land; and all that which is called money is merely the token of that wealth. We could change the token; with the aid of a printing press the New Zealand Times could turn paper into the equivalent for sovereigns and the editor himself could turn the money out. (Laughter and applause). The idea we have in life is to show our people that our labour force applied to the resources of nature is the real wealth, because, as I have indicated, if all the gold was gathered in one spot together with its owners, they could not feed themselves with it.