Price controls needed —M.P.
The Prime Minister (Mr Muldoon) was blustering .about wage controls at a time when price controls should be applied, said the Opposition .spokeswoman on consumer’ / affairs, and member of Parliament for Lyttelton, Mrs Anri Hercus, yesterday. Reacting to the 7c a dozen increase in the price of eggs, Mrs Hercus said that recently egg prices had risen about once a month joining increases in the last four months in the price of apples (removed from price control), frozen vegetables, chickens, butter, flour, margarine, sugar, electricity, and rail tickets. The Government, she said, had failed to control the cost of feed, which was the main factor in the egg price increase.
Little progress would be made against inflation until the Government stabilised interest rates, electricity, postal and rail charges.
Mrs Hercus said the Government wanted electoral advantage in a confrontation with trade unions over the general wage decision by a properly constituted Arbitration Court.
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