PARLIAMENT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 245, 13 September 1935, Page 10

PARLIAMENT.

MEMBERS’S ASSERTION. Per Press Association. Wellington, sept. 13. During the Address-in-Reply debate in the House of Representatives to-day, Mr F. Jones said the people were fairly well protected against being sold shoddy footwear or impure food and drugs, but the people were not protected against shoddy clothing. He referred especially to imported sucks, a pair of which he produced and which were branded “all wool” but which were 50 per cent cotton, and they came trom Great Britain, People were being exploited by certain manufacturers. The Government knew of the position and he wanted to know what they were doing about it. He believed the socks were made of old clothes recarded in Britain. A fraud was being perpetrated oil the people ot New Zealand. Mr Jones added that an examination of New Zealand-made socks showed that the New Zealand nianufactuiers had not adopted practices adopted by some British manufacturers. Rev. C. Carr: Were they really made in Britain ? Mr Jones said he did not know, but they were so branded. Mr Jones went on to refer to the practical abolition of the Arbitration Court. He asked why the Government did not do the same for the worker as it did for the farmer. He said the Court of Review had the same relation to the farmer as the Arbitration Court had to the worker, yet the worker was denied access to the Aibi" tration Court. Mr Jones also dealt with the subsidy paid by the Unemployment Boaul to the Southland Frozen Meat Company, which was ventilated last session. Mr A. J. Stallworthy contended that Mr Macmillan was wrong in stating that all production went into consumption He quoted quantities of foodstuffs and animals that had been destroyed, such as pigs, cows, flour, cotton, coffee and fish. He thought it was a mistaken policy to raise the exchange. He had prophesied that it would cause ill-feeling towards New Zealand in Britain, and that had come true. The House adjourned.

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