NATIONAL RECONSTRUCTION.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 3 June 1919, Page 3

NATIONAL RECONSTRUCTION.

WELLINGTON June 2. The New Zealand Returned Soldiers' Association has published, an address to members of Parliament and public men and public bodies in this country. It is a statement of the case J for national reconstruction a® viewed j by the association, and requesting practical support. The main features of the scheme submitted are : 1. The Government to require those connected with each individual indusr try (employed and employing) to furnish a report covering the present and prospective Dominion requirements of the industry in respect to (a) man power, (b) tariff, (c) capital, (d) necessary BURjjlementary industries. 2. rhe Government to 6ummon a Dominion industrial and repatriation conference to examine and collate reports with the object of forming a constructive policy for the whole Dominion, and <to refer particularly to (a) the best distribution of our available man power, (b) the desirability of advancing State capital for the initiation and development of industry (c) the establishment of new indus^ tries, (d) the desirability of State ownership of particular industries and services, (c) a Dominion scheme of hydro-electric power, (f) a unified scheme of roaSing. railways, and communication® generally, (g) a fi Sca i po i_ icy for the Dominion, (h) recommendations for Empire rcolicy.