Manufacturers Protest at Price Controls
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, Oct. 21. “The manufacturer has been the easiest section of the business commodity to bring into the price control, net.” states the annual report of the Wellington Manufacturers’ Association. “There is no longer any pretence that other sections of commerce are to be leniently treated by controls over prices and while we can sympathise with our retail and wholesale friends in their price problems, we as manufacturers have stood the brunt of the attack.” The report added that in a country such as New Zealand control of prices, except in cases of monopolies, should not be exercised in peacetime except over essential commodities in short supply. The time was long past, said the report, for a relaxation of this onerous form of control and the Manufacturers’ Federation was preparing a case for presentation to Cabinet showing the serious effects on consumers and manufacturers alike of what was nothing more or less than profit control. The answer to (he call for increased nroduction was: “Relieve us of our controls and we will do the job.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23083, 22 October 1949, Page 6
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