PRIMAGE DUTY

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 50, 28 February 1930, Page 15

PRIMAGE DUTY

NECESSITY FOR INCREASE

NOT FAULT OF GOVERNMENT'

1 (By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.") AUCKLAND, This! Day. "1 am sony 'that politics are to l>c discussed hcie only by tho president and. vico-picsideut," baid the Minister of Industries and Commerce (lion. J. B. Donald) ;it Iho annual meeting of , the Auckland Chamber of , Comuicicc yeslcrdiiy. "I am ssorry because thetc ib material for a gopd speech, but I am not going to touch | upp\ politics. | 'l can assuio you that tho Government was very adverse to ■ putting on ' , the extra duty, and jio one will be better pleased than Cabinet to sec both i Iho original 3 per cent, and the addition out, of the road. 'We hope that it will bo at no distant-time. Some-1 thing olso will ha.veto take'its place,! i and I trust it will be something more equitable." '.j 1 i The political po(/'liaa been, i a good deal of 'late, iho Minister continued, but that was ' a good tiling because it shoved that the public wciu | intmchted in polities. A too placid life was not healthy for any com--1 munity.

"No party ■syill.do any good in this country or anyivhei'o without its ]iH.!o troubles,"' coutiuuea Air. Donald. "It is glad of agi(,atio'ji r iu tho political pot. Tho pa'Uy "is not '4n oflico bocauiO it wanls^ to 'stay in, but because the people, want'it to, and pcuonally I have no doubt of tho outcome. You may be sure that the present Cabinet is not in oDico fov self, but for ilio people. When it feels that it cannot servo the electorate) it will resign and givo somcono clso the opportunity."