'Indecent haste’ in Govt plan

Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33230, 21 May 1973, Page 12

'Indecent haste’ in Govt plan

The indecent haste with which the Labour Government had embarked on its State trading scheme should act as a warning of further Government incursions into the field of private enterprise, said the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Marshall) in Christchurch on Saturday.

All sectors of private en-.creases in costs. This, in turn, terprise should stand to- is reflected in propertygether to oppose all such in- market inflation.” cursions, not just those; The Labour Government which affected them directly, had let inflation go again, and he told the annual conference I the sinister influence of the of the Canterbury-Westland ’ Federation of Labour was division of the National ■ being felt. Party. “But the victory parade is

If there were not constant coming to an end,” said Mr surveillance and opposition Marshall. "So far, the Labour to such encroachment, the Party has been on the crest State would take over all of the wave — a very diffiprofitable private enterprise cult position to hold — and piecemeal, said Mr Marsnall. inow the signs are starting to The Labour Government show that the wave is begmharl exhausted its supplies of ning to dump them.” easy decisions based on elec- The result ct the 1975 tion policy, and now had to Genera) Election would deget down to the hard task of pend a lot on the performgovemmg the country. ance of the National Party m “Its impetuous attempts to Opposition, he said — not to boost housing and building oppose for the sake of opposconstruction are another ing, but to propose instead illustration of hasty action constructive alternative poiiwhich causes more problems cies.

than it solves,” Mr Marshall “It would be mere oomsaid. bast to say that we will win

“There is now chaos,” he in 1975 — but it is realistic said. “There are shortages, ! to say that we can,” Mr Marbottlenecks, and massive in- shall said.