INCREASED COSTS
GOVERNMENT TO MAKE
INVESTIGATION
MR SULLIVAN’S ASSURANCE
TO MANUFACTURERS
An assurance that the Government was going to make a thorough investigation of the effects of new legislation on costs in industry was given by the Minister for Industries and Commerce, the Hon. D. G. Sullivan, speaking at the opening of the Winter Show on Saturday evening. The investigation was in the hands of a committee representing the Department of Industries and Commerce and the Customs Department, Mr Sullivan said, and a report would be made recommending any action which might be necessary. “Some of the manufacturers may be thinking of increased costs,” he said. “You will be glad to know that a procedure has been found to meet the situation.
“All the high falutin’ talk about developing secondary industries .will be useless if there is no market. We cannot develop industries out of thin, air. It is because the Government realises that the first essential is a market that it has carried out its policy of increasing wages.”
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21857, 10 August 1936, Page 10
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