State Interference

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20185, 1 March 1940, Page 8

State Interference

Sir, —The -control of lish by regulation of misguided governmental authorities and politicians is an eloquent testimony to the imbecility of the bureaucratic control of industry, so favoured by the socialistic party now in power and its adherents. By their refusal to recognise the fundamental law of supply and demand and to encourage a reasonable competition in industry, the net result appears to be that the public pays. Fish is regulated; up goes the price, and no more cheap fresh fish. Fruit is regulated. Distributing agents and governmental authorities get fat jobs and juicy 'fees, but the people pay again for this luxury and the producers who do the work get ’in the soup, and so on and so on, whenever the dead hand of the State meddles with affairs that do not concern it. I have daily been expecting to. hear that the Government had regulated the control of meat, so stopping the cheap supplies from the freezing works. Perhaps they are keeping this for a Christmas present. The sooner this country wakes up to the fact that Governments can no more conduct sound business than a gorilla can mend watches, the sooner will the business of the country become convalescent. EASTUS.