IN BUSINESS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 285, 1 December 1934, Page 11

IN BUSINESS.

GOVERNMENT'S PART. GOOD WILL AND TRADE. PROTECTION OP MARKETS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTC'HURCH, this day. Questions , of exchange and foreign markets were touched on by the Prime Minister (Mr. Forbes) in an address at Cheviot. "We are often told that the Government should not interfere in business," said Mr. Forbes. "That is the last thing the Government wishes to do. If business can go on without its assistance, no one is better pleased than the Government, but if a market depends on the good will of another country, it becomes a matter for negotiations between the Governments of the countries concerned." He added that British Ministers had been very fair in their treatment of New Zealand and were doing their best for the Dominion. Mr. Forbes said it was the intention of the Government to set up a board to examine the prospects of new markets and to take the fullest advantage of the opportunities offering in Great Britain. This legislation had met with criticism, but when new ground was broken criticism followed naturally. In those proposals the Government was acting on the advice and experience of practical men. Mr. Forbes referred to the benefits farmers had received from the exchange, and said he did not know whether dairy farmers would have been able to carry on without it. This measure was adopted in the face of bitterest criticism, but the farmers were the backbone of the country and the country as a whole benefited from the steps taken.