Marketing

Press, Volume C, Issue 29643, 13 October 1961, Page 3

Marketing

Sir,—One can disagree entirely with Mr Hayman and think auction-market dispersal of goods and foodstuffs a luxury our freeenterprise economy can ill afford. Within the “gobetween” social category and operating to a percentageplus basis of economic demand it is wasteful both of our labour potential and finance. In the first place it demands sustenance at a high level (itself adding nothing to production totals) at the hands of farm and factory workers. In the second, as encouraging the spiral of rising prices, it is one of the main contributories towards inflated costs. The present call for increased production is to satisfy the wants of this ever-expanding section within our labour ranks parasitic in effect and rapacious upon our resources of men. money, and materials. — Yours, etc, FRANCIS Wm. HEAL. October 11, 1961,