NO FOOD CONTROLLER.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 1014, 6 November 1917, Page 6

NO FOOD CONTROLLER.

TOWN PLANNING PROPOSALS. f (Special Correspondent). ’ WELLINGTON. Nov. 5, The Pi in 10 Minister says Unit Cabinet lias rot. yofc given formal consideration to the- ■ (.port of the Cost- of Livin'? Committee. bill it is ovidont enough that tiny eommitiee s xn--.il important rt-eommeiulaiioii. the appointment. of a food controller, bar ' lol 1 found favour in the eyes of Ministers. Iho j reason Li not fur to seek. An iu ltv. 1 knxl controller. working along lines dial have been blazed by the Hoard of Trade. would ■ i'ovo embarrassing to the Government. tin- ... s it wore prepared uv assist _ m giving .■tt’ect to its proposals. due National Government. shrinks from attompis to control :irices and is rather glad, it appears. to he able to point to the comparative failure -u i.-ueh attempts in Australia, whom the Labour Governments have found that, prices react upon'production in a fashion that may be disconcerting. STANDARD PRICKS. Thu Government, although it. is not diseased to adopt more drastic- remedies stiffJested to it. is anxious to <lo something toVviud'j keening- <lovvu the cost, of living, and li "may make an effort presently to use s.mie of the machinery provided by f the 'Bade and Commerce Act c.i_ 1914. I his jacasiue lias been amended slightly by the Sf-Uiiio Law Amendment Act. pu.-.si-d dijr oiir the recent, session, and it empowers iuc ibsVernmciu to h\ “standard prices. Ihe “i-Luulard pike” of any article, is the price , : which it was sold in any particular 10. . ilitv oil a day specified, when sold in the Ime quantity and on the same terms as to iiviiii-nt. delivery and otherwise. Ihe i ’ V rd of Trade probtdily could help the. eonAuners a great deal if it were allowed to nuke full use of this power to state prices, which the retailers would not lie allowed to exceed without the Board s consent, given a f ier investigation. TOWN PLANNING. The energetic Minister for Internal Aifair.s produced a Town Planning Bill in the tiring hours of the session*, and sunl he pot)yd members of Parliament and tluygene-■-<tf public would become acquainted with its provisions during the. recess. The Bill pro viifer? for the creation of a Town Planning' Commission, which is to work with the local authorities in areas that have been broughtunder the scheme by proclamation. _ 'i lie aigiit.p of the city and borough councils appjar b> bo fully protected. The central idea i',l the Bill is to ensure that new suburbs siiall be laid out in accordance with-modem notions of town planning-. New Zealand clings still to the- citeti, bear'd design, except, in those canva where tin- landowner and the builder tire allowed to mis use- liie. configuration of hills and valleys, and if the jinn. G. W. Russel! can awake public opinion in this respect he will have performed another very useful service. THKCMHN. A medical man who has been visiting the C; camp at Tauhereuikau, where men arc being made lit for service with the. Expeditionary Force, returned to Wellington full of enthusiasm concerning what, he had seen, “ft, will bo a, thousand pities if the camp is not continued after the. war,” ho said. “The JWc-nce authorities arc teaching some, hundreds of men what it is to be physically lit for the first time in their Jives, and 1 have no hesitation at all, after what I saw out there in saying that- it would he a good thing if every unfit man in New Zealand were, required lo spend three mouths in camp, whether he was required for service with iqo forces or not,. Fresh air, good food, regular hours, and K-ientillcaJly graduated exeroisos are doing wonders for the recruits.

and 1 understand that the percentage of men who will become available for active service is substantially higher than was (.x----peoted originally.” It is early days' to be talking of what New Zealand will do in the matte?' of defenoe effort after the wax-, but one may hazard a guess that the existing training camps will become pan of the machinery of the territorial system.