HIGH PRICE OF VEGETABLES
♦ government action SUGGESTED [From Our Parliamentary Reporter.] WELLINGTON, November 29. The Minister for Labour (the Hon. P. C, Webb) is to be asked whether he will take steps toward stimulating production so that New Zealand housewives may secure vegetables for their, families without paying unconscionable prices for necessary New Zealand pro* duce, in a question of which Mr ,J. A. Lee (Democratic Labour, Grey Lynn) gave notice in the House of Representatives to-day. . . ■ „ Mr Lee will ask whether Mr Webb is aware of the rising cost of New Zealand-produced vegetables, due to: (1) the withdrawal of labour for war purposes; (2) profiteering; (3) inefficient marketing; (4) or to a combination of these circumstances. It is also -being asked whether the Minister did not promise more than a year ago to use unemployed men to grow vegetables for soldiers in camp, the present shortage being foreseeable, and what he has done in the matter.
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Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23191, 30 November 1940, Page 14
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