SACK THE LOT.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LX, Issue 11044, 18 February 1933, Page 2

SACK THE LOT.

(To the Editor.) read with interest your 1 report of the last meeting of the Chamber of Commerce, and could not help feeling that the Chamber is fortunate in having such an out-spoken Chairman. It is quite- refreshing. First we are told that the higher exchange. Customs and sales-tax had increased the cost of living. Really. Then come the gems. The Department of Industries and Commerce is not warranted: the Department of Agriculture could be reduced by half; the Tourist Department could be cut out; the Town Planning Department was of no avail; museum and fishery experts were an excresence. So much in detail, and then in general Government Departments should be reduced. Of course, if we did all this it would not increase unemployment, and the cost of living for the rest of us would not go up as a, consequence? Mr Keam was very mild when he stated that the Department of Agriculture was necessary owing to the prevalence and spread of stock diseases.- It is a pity the Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce does not make himself a little more conversant with the work that this Department, at least, is doing. I suppose so far as the work now done by the other Departments! is concerned it could all be handled by the village constable and the local postmaster, neither of whom have enough to occupy them nowadays? ‘Sack the lot’ seems to be the stock-in-trade of quite a number of Chambers of Commerce nowadays, but the palm must go to Taurahga for pure unadulterate foolishness. The hazy thinking that such speeches betray bodes ill for the future welfare of any community.—l am, etc., PUZZLED COCKY. Katikati, 16th February, 1933.