COLOUR BAR CONDEMNED

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29228, 11 June 1960, Page 15

COLOUR BAR CONDEMNED

Labour Party’s Resolution

(New Zeala.id Press Association) WELLINGTON. June 10.

The Labour Party conference today passed a resolution in general terms condemning racial discrimination.

It also voted in favour of recommendations that:—

A finance corporation be established to finance all local body capital works. An investigation be made into the interest rates charged by hire purchase and finance companies and into the credit systems being operated by retail and other businesses. An investigation be made into having elementary forms of conveyancing done through a Government agency particularly in regard to legal charges for capitalisation of the family benefit.

In cases sent to the Supreme Court for trial, the evidence in the lower court be not published; unduly high charges by barristers be discussed with the law society. Publication of details of morals cases be further restricted.

When persons serving life sentences are released their names be not published.

The question of payment for persons serving on a jury be investigated. An investigation be made of the advisability of licensing all accommodation bureaux and setting a scale of charges. The conference rejected remits that all New Zealand troops should be withdrawn from Malaya and that New Zealand should withdraw from all military pacts and from the S.E.A.T.O. and the A.N.Z.U.S. Pact.