TO GO IN AUSTRALIA

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 102, 2 May 1944, Page 6

TO GO IN AUSTRALIA

UNNECESSARY CONTROLS

. fi.ec. I;3Q p.m. CANBERRA, May 2. The easing of business restrictions was promised ■by the Acting Prime Minister, Mr. F. M. Forde, when: opening the annual conference of the Associated Chambers of Commerce. He sard that a committee had been established in the Attorney-General's Department to review war time regulations and recommend the removal of those which were no longer con--1 sidered necessary for the efficient conduct of the war. Unnecessary regulations would be lifted as the war position improved, ' and in the immediate post-war period. This would be done in a reasoned and orderly manner to avoid unemployment, or an economic slump or depression. The president, Sir Marcus Clarke, said the Government by regulation had gone too far and that some who administered' those regulations imagined they were dictators. The Government's taxation policy was contrary to its professed expansionist policy for private industry. The need for high taxation in war time was recognised, but the repre- ■' : sentatives of Australian trade objected to a policy which taxed savagely reserves, which had been set aside for the maintenance, of plant and equipment and building which had been deferred because of the war.