INTERNAL MARKETING DIVISION

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 24052, 14 September 1943, Page 6

INTERNAL MARKETING DIVISION

Sir,—ln your issue of to-day I see two of the Labour Party yes-men attempting to prove what a boon the Internal Marketing Division has been to New Zealand. There was nothing indiscreet in Mr Doidge’s statement. Every housewife knows too well that Government marketing has been an added tax on her income. What I want to know is where the difference goes between the price the Marketing Board was going to allow the beekeepers for their honey, 5Jd a pound, and the retailers’ price of from Is 5d to 2s a pound. There is something rotten in the state of New Zealand when such great institutions as the Internal Marketing Department exists and when things like this are of such a frequent occurrence. We have been sold many pups in the last eight years but I trust the sale is nearly over.—Yours, etc.,

e . t F. CARTER. September 11, 1943.

. Sir >—An army still marches on its stomach, and if control of the marketing of foodstuffs is abolished, how can an army be fed? Mr Doidge stated ‘ y, e had supplied the Americans with 1J million dozen eggs. He didn’t state the number of dozen also that went to our merchant marine, who b uy for the return trip, and numerous other commitments, such as hospitals, hospital ships, etc. How could these eggs have been supplied without the Internal Marketing Department, or some other form of control. A free market would have removed the shortage of eggs to the New Zealand public; grocers, hotels, and restaurants, would have had all the eggs they required: housewives would not have had to stand in queues to receive their three eggs weekly; but our sick and wounded would have had to go short. —Yours, etc..

J. W. McGLINCHY. Hornby. September 11. 1943,