AFTER THE WAR

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 25, 29 July 1943, Page 4

AFTER THE WAR

PRIVATE ENTERPRISE Stressing the part that private enterprise would play in post-war rehabilitation plans Mr. W. A. Bodkin (National, Central Otago), speaking in the House of Representatives last evening on the Land and Income Tax (Annual) Bill, said that it would be a'sad day for New Zealand and :the/Soldiers? if private enterprise was "not in a position to do the job. • "Surely it ought to be a matter of Government policy to get behind private enterprise and see that when the time comes private enterprise is not stultified," said Mr. Bodkin. In addition to the rehabilitation of men from, overseas there would also be the problem of the rehabilitation of women who today were working in industry. Unless private enterprise was in a remarkably healthy condition after the war it would not be in a position to expand to provide for the labour that would be available. ■ ■ '* It would be essential that the farming industry at least should be in a position not only to meet immediate demands for increased production, but also to make an exceptional effort to provide the credits that would be required overseas. Government members were always inferring that there would be a big expansion of the secondary industries, but that would be limited by the amount of credits the farming community would be able to provide overseas. If members imagined that an exchange shortage could be met by borrowing overseas they were optimists, because it was apparent that the tasks that would confront the United Kingdom and America after the war would be .the greatest ever faced in history. : -