THINKING

Evening Post, Issue 154, 1 July 1936, Page 10

THINKING

GOVERNMENT'S WAY

USE OF ITS FEET

"There is an inclination on the part of some people—especially the newspapers—to criticise the Government and say that it is unfair to keep the\ producer in suspense in regard to what the guaranteed price will be," said the Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage) today.

"Critics say that the producer should know. I say that if the Labour Government, did not exist today, no dairy farmer in New Zealand would know how much he was going to get for his butter on August 1. He would not have the slightest idea whether it would be 65s or 112s. Under the present Government scheme the dairy farmer .will be told deliberately. It has already been stated that it will be on the .average of the last eight or ten years, and one need not be a mathe-» matician to make a-guess at it. We will, fix the price by Order in Council by August 1." The Prime Minister said that members of the Government had done some thinking prior to taking office. "We have heard about one man well known in New. Zealand who had to go to a certain gorge to think things over before he could get out of a difficulty," said Mr. Savage. "We still think that we. can do our thinking on our feet, without'going into any gorge at all," he added.