INDUSTRY INQUIRIES

Evening Star, Issue 22619, 10 April 1937, Page 17

INDUSTRY INQUIRIES

THE BUREAU CONTROVERSY MR SULLIVAN'S REPLY [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, April 10. Tu the course of a reply to Mr Mantier, the Hon. D. G. Sullivan points out that there, are two representatives of the Manufacturers’ Federation on the Bureau of Industry, and these would be the first to deny and resent any suggestion of unfairness, or that the making of decisions was based solely on departmental reports. “ The assertion that tho fate of an industry or prospective industries rests upon some secret and biased report of a departmental officer is too stupid to warrant any consideration. Further, the Act provides that if the person concerned is aggrieved with the decision he has the right of appeal, which shows that every reasonable safeguard has been provided.” Mr Sullivan expresses the opinion that Mr Mander is sufficiently answered by his own president, Mr 1L Henry, who, in reference to Mr Hander’s statement of having come upon dozens of cases of misunderstandings between departmental officers and industrialists, said the federation had no previous knowledge of such misunderstanding.