TRADE RESTRICTIONS
Sir, —The remarts of the Minister of Industries and Commerce (Mr E. H. Halstead), reported in your Thursday’s issue, on trade restrictions by private enterprise (aiming at maximum profit), is much to the point and gives food for thought. / Is it not inevitable that with the private profit motive dominant the public interest becomes subordinate? A British socialist writer, Robert Blatchford, years ago summarised the problem: “Given a country and a people, how shall that people make the most of their country and themselves?” That is a question of economic organisation and cultural developments. Surely the common-sense and dignified way is with basic economic planning of production for. use and general welfare rather than by one promoting insatiable personal greed.—Yours, etc., A.H.S.H. February 28, 1957.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28216, 2 March 1957, Page 3
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