PAYMENT FOR WOOL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 78, 1 July 1943, Page 4

PAYMENT FOR WOOL

NEGOTIABLE WAR BONDS GOVERNMENT ADOPTS OPPOSITION POLICY i.From Our Parliamentary Reporter) Wellington, This Day. In deciding to allow the farmers to receive payment of their wool in negotiable war bonds, the Government had at last given way to representations of the Opposition, said the Leader of the Opposition, Mr S. G. Holland, in the House of Representatives vesterday Speaking on the Finance Bill, he suggested that the reason for its change of mind was that there was to be a General Election this year and the Minister of Marketing would have to give an account of his stewardship to the producers. Mr A. S. Richards (Govt., Roskill) : Does the honourable gentleman think the farmers can be bought with that? Mr Holland said that the farmers could not be bought by what the Minister had done. The attitude of the Opposition to the question of the wool pay-out had now been wholeheartedly confirmed by the Government. He was glad that the Government had seen its way to approve of a fixation of costs for dairy farmers. The Opposition had hammered away at this idea for many years, but the Government had refused to budge from its policy until the Opposition had wired its policy to the dairy conference at Palmerston l North.—P .A,