BRITAIN’S BOUNTY
WHO GETS THE EXTRA £3,500,000?
THE PRODUCERS OR STABILISATION ACCOUNTS?
(Special.) WELLINGTON, Aug, 28. Stating that reliable information showed that the recent price increases given by Britain under contract for New Zealand exported produce would amount to £5,500,000 a year, Mr W, Sullivan (Nat., Bay of Plenty) asked the Government in the House last night to make an early statement as to how much of this sum was to be paid direct to the producers, If the Minister of Finance intended to pay the whole sum into the various stabilisation accounts, continued Mr Sullivan, he was going to defeat the object of Britain paying higher prices, because the purpose was to encourage still greater production of food for Britain. What the producer wanted, he suggested, was not so much increased prices as reduced costs, because he knew quite well that the time would cpme when he would have to face competitive prices from the other food-produc-ing countries which supplied Britain, and he wanted to see his costs come down so that he could meet that competition on better terms, He did not see bow the Government could ever establish a case for giving a subsidy out of the primary producers’ account, under whicn all benefited at the expense of the few. Mr Sullivan also said that the National Party bad always encouraged and supported the secondary industries, No Opposition member wanted to do any injury to the secondary industries, and desired to see the primary and secondary industries working together, The trouble to-day was that industry was pot allowed to .run freely ? and men were not given an incentive, A land development policy was needed. There were great opportunities in afforestation and also w° n d er ful opportunities of developing the tourist trade. Nothing, however, could be done along those lines unless free enterprise were allowed to move freely, and that was not possible if it was excessively taxed and unduly restricted, as it was to-day,
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Evening Star, Issue 25882, 28 August 1946, Page 4
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329BRITAIN’S BOUNTY Evening Star, Issue 25882, 28 August 1946, Page 4
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