ORDERS-IN-COUNCIL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 16, 29 October 1932, Page 3

ORDERS-IN-COUNCIL.

AN INQUIRY DEMANDED. SCHOOL BOOKS AND CINEMAS. (Special to the “Guardian.”) WELLINGTON, Oct. 28. Asking that the Orders-in-Council relating to the school text book contract and the construction of picture theatres should be made subjects for inquiry by a tribunal or Parliamentary Committee, Mr Campbell (Coalition, Hawke’s Bay) declared in the House yesterday that in “common fairness to those who the Government, the whole matter snould be cleaned up.”

“As a result of the Qrder-in-Coun-cil relating to picture theatres the construction of a picture theatre in Hastings had been held up* for 18 months,” he said. The erection of this building would have given employment to forty-five tradesmen for four or five months, and this aspect of the question was an important one, as in Hastings there were 90U unemployed, including 700 tradesmen. On the one hand the Government was urging private individuals to set the wheels of industry going, and on the other hand it was preventing the operations of enterprise. “These men are being kept out of work which would he available if only the Government would allow it to proceed,” said Mr Campbell. “I appeal to tlie Government to use a little common sense and allow business to carry on.” He declared the whole of Government enterprise in various trading activities had had a disastrous effect.