Bread
Sir, —“Rip Van Winkle” states that I am interested in politics. I am, but only to the extent to which politics intrudes into fields in which it has no mandate and no capacity. In this country, the flour, bread, and some other allied industries are run by the Government under cover of the unpopular fronts of the Wheat Committee and the Department of Industries and Commerce, both working in the closest disharmony. The Government hides behind the Wheat Committee, the committee behind the department, and the department behind the Government in a cover-up exercise which
leaves no-one, least of all the public, knowing who decides what, or why, or on what evidence. The alleged justification for this is the need for administering and policing the subsidy and its attendant price controls, and the sooner these subsidies are abolished (with some corresponding reduction in taxation) the better for the country.—Yours, etc., FACTS. November 5, 1964.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30592, 7 November 1964, Page 14
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