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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 226, 23 September 1943, Page 7

THUMBS DOWN! "The Truth Atiout the Internal Marketing Department" is the title of a book on which a well-known writer is at present working. He expects it to be a best-seller. It will certainly be a long, sad story as far as housewives are concerned — a story of scarcity in the midst of plenty, of prices increased by the very Government'which had promised over and over to keep them down. These days, of course, the shortcomings of the I.M.D. are blamed on the war and the needs of the United Nations' Forces in the Pacific. In respect of prices and scarcities however, New Zealanders have inconveniently long memories. They know that items handled by the I.M.D. w ere getting scarcer and dearer Befoie the war, and certainly they were full of genuine and well-founded complaints long before the war spread to the Pacmc. in the case of honey, the first thing the I M.D. did, on taking over distribution nf this product, was to increase the nrice All along the line it has irritated the producers and angered the consumers, while capable business men and small retailers with lifelong records of honest trading have been harassed and victimised The National Party will end all this It will abolish the Internal Marketing Department and place the distribution and sale of foodstuffs m the hands of. men who know the job.—(Ad.l