HIGHER COST OF LIVING

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 306, 21 September 1943, Page 6

HIGHER COST OF LIVING

INDICATED BY NATIONALISTS’ BOLICY. It. is the intention of the National Barty if returned to rower to remove the barriers that, prevent food .costs rising. Further evidence ot' this is given by -Mr. A. S. Sutherland, M.P., Nationalist candidate for Hauraki. Mr. Sutherland stated that it was the intention of his party if returned to power to see that there was an increase in the price paid for farm produce. He also thought that the retail price of butter in New Zealand should be raised. . Mr. F. W. Doid'ge. M.P., Nationalist candidate for Ttiuranga, criticized the fixing of a ceiling price for vegetables. "1 have been informed." said Mr. Doid.go ’ithat the ceiling price will bo (>/- a dozen for sipring cabbages at this lime of the year, a sum that quite definitely does not pay the grower.” The ceiling price indicated, he believed, would rule for the months of August, September and October, and it would mean Hint the growers were producing cabbages “at a sacrifice to so-called stabilizaztion-”

Tim Labour Government’s vegetable scheme will ensure that: vegetables are available to the people at reasonable prices. Housewives need not be reminded of the ridiculous prices to which cabbages rose in the early years of the war. yet it is these very conditions to which Mr. Doidge would have them return.

Under Labour, staple foods sueh as bread. Hour. meat, sugar, etc., are still at pre-war prices. Labour is determined to keep living costs down. Housewives who want to keep the lid on prices will vote labour again. Advt.