COST OF LIVING

Marlborough Express, Volume LIV, Issue 85, 12 April 1920, Page 5

COST OF LIVING

STATEMENT BY MR. MASSEY

PUBLIC AND PROFITEERING

[Purrs Association.]

WELLINGTON, April 10. In the course of a lengthy statement justifying the action cf the Government in -the steps it had taken to reduce the cost of living, Mr Massey said that everyone in commerce knew the extreme difficulty there was in securing supplies, and at no time in the Dominion's history was the demand for imported goods so great and the shelves so bare. The Government would do its duty in facing the position fearlessly, but it had to be careful and just. He would again stress the fact that the Government had given every possible opportunity to the public of having a full investigation made into all cases in which they considered unreasonable profits were being mad©, and the i*overnmont looked to them to exercise their powers in this direction, as without the assistance of the public the full benefit of the legislation recently passed could not bo realised.