If The State Were Supreme

Northern Advocate, 11 July 1938, Page 9

If The State Were Supreme

I Special to “Northern Advocate." 1 WANGANUI. This Day.

In an address to a meeting of farmers at Makirikiri. Mr W. W. Mulholland. Dominion President of the New Zealand Farmer’s’ Union, said that if tlio Primary Products Marketing Act and its amendments of last session were put into effect fully, there would be no exchange outside New Zealand in the hands of the private individual. It would all accrue to the Slate. Ho thought he could safely say that it was deliberately intended.

Mr Mulholland quoted from a speech by the Minister of Lands, the Hon. F. Langs tone, in support of this claim. He also quoted the Minister of Marketing, the Hon. W. Nash, as saying before the last election that the Government had to get all the exchange. and buy such things as it thought the country should need. “That means that if you want’ to go for a holiday you will have to go to the Government for the money,” said Mr Mulholland, “and perhaps the Government may say whether you ought to have the holiday or not "These are not things I am drawing on. my imagination to find. They are from actual statements made. It may be that there is no immediate intention of doing these things, and that these acts are being passed quite legitimately, but the point is that the power to do them is there now, and the Government has it In Its own hands without further reference .to Parliament.”