PRIMARY PRODUCTION
DECENTRALISATION OF CONTROL URGED Christchurch, Feb. 4. Adoption of a British wartime scheme of organising primary production was advocated at a meeting of the North Canterbury Council of Primary Production by Mr J. W. Earl, who moved: “The the National j Primary Production Council be j strongly urged to recommend to the! Government the immediate necessity for giving district primary production councils full powers in their areas in regard to essential primary production, manpower, etc.” The council deferred decision on the motion to give members an opportunity for further consideration. Mr Earl said his proposal was simply in line with British procedure, which was admitted to be a great success. Wartime policy must be determined and carried into effect without delay, and it was equally imperative that definite plans must be made for post-war production. There was an obvious lack of planning in New Zealand. “To be successful, the national production policy must be decentralised in administration and the actual control placed in the hands of the people vitally concerned.” said Mr Earl. “You all know as well as I do that we are not making any progress whatever under the present system of bureaucratic control.**
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 5 February 1944, Page 2
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