GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18077, 29 April 1922, Page 9

GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES.

I AUSTRALIANS UNEASY. I HELP FOR BEEF INDUSTRY. Proposals which have beer, agreed to 1 recently by the Federal Government tor i the granting of a subsidy of jd a- lb. to I the beef industry, subject to certain con ditions, appear to have caused, alarm among members of the Commonwealth Parliament. It is understood, says a Sydney paper, that there was a considerable difference of feeling among members of the Federal Ministry in regard to the P r0 *~ posed assistance, and that but tor.the very serious position in which the beef. i industry bad been piactd the opposition 'from the Liberal members of the Cabinet would have been very much more vigorous. It has apparently been laid down I by these Ministers as a condition of their i acceptance of the proposals that the assistance granted shall not be regarded at a i precedent to be extended to other indusI tries in need of help. " The only riling that justifies a Gov I eminent in doing what the Nationalist : Government has promised in regard to 1 the beef industry," said one member of ' the Federal Parliament, "is that the f workers agree to assist to case the position. I by working for a smaller wage than tor--1 m'erly, and by doing more work during j the hours they ;ire employed.''