RESTRICTIONS ON HOTELS
-“Perfect Specimen For Police State” (New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND. December 11. There was no- other industry so restricted as the hotel industry, said the chairman of Brents. Ltd. (Sir Ernest Davis) at the annual meeting of shareholders in Auckland today It was under every conceivable restriction and was. in truth, a perfect specimen of a police State—over-governed from every angle. Sir Ernest Davis said he did not know why the industry was always attacked instead of being encouraged, when the tourist industry was apparently of such great national benefit Was there any official prejudice against the hotel industry being fairly rewardedt-’ It amazed him that .the people ot New Zetdand. generally speaking, did not?.realise that they were drifting into restrictions, he said. There was restriction after restriction, penalty after penalty, and inspectors for every known question. New Zealand was fast reverting to the thumbscrew method of legislating on the rights of the ihdividual. He was not blaming the present Government in particular, but successive Government policies aver a score of years. There was no such thing as liberty in New Zealand. The country must strive to get back to free enterprise.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28767, 12 December 1958, Page 21
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