'Political Speech' By State Servant ?
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, This Day. In a question in the House of Representatives yesterday, Mr J. T. Watts (C— Riccarton) asked the Minister of Marketing (Mr Roberts) whether it was with his approval that the Director of Marketing (Mr Ross Fraser), who was a paid Government servant, attended a meeting of cooperative societies in Palmerston North and made a political speech. Mr Watts said it had been reported that at this meeting Mr Ross Fraser had said: "When the Internal Marketing Division helped producers who were financially unsound in 1937. producers called it legitimate Government assistance: but new producers are prosperous they are prone to call such assistance unwarrantable Government interference." Mr Watts asked whether it was pait of the Government’s policy to put up civil servants to make speeches on such contentious matters as the Internal Marketing Division.
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Northern Advocate, 18 July 1946, Page 4
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