MARCH OF SCIENCE
INDUSTRIAL CONTROL
NEED FOR A PLAN
A plea for the reorganisation of society iv keeping with the development o£ production was made in the. House of Representatives by Mr. R. Semple (Labour, Wellington East) during the course of his speech iv 'the Address in Reply debate. Mr. Semple said that the application of scientific methods to industry was driving men into idleness. Side by side with mountains of wealth they had. millions of people on the verge of starvation. There was no effort being made to'orgauise industry in keeping with the .march-of-'science,'but those in control were • content to move along the same old rut. Agricultural develoment in the United Kingdom was lessening New Zealand's share of that market, and it was time that the Government commenced, to. survey, the natural wealth of the Dominion with a view to planning industry so that the people would be clothed, housed, and fed,. irrespective of what was happening in other parts of the world. The couutry was smiling with possibility and weeping with wealth, and yet from 150,000 "to 200,000 people did not know where to obtain" a decent meal. There was a ueed for a properly organised monetary system under the control Of the people. New Zealand could not solve world problems, but she could rectify her own difficulties.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 83, 5 October 1933, Page 5
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220MARCH OF SCIENCE Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 83, 5 October 1933, Page 5
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