PRICES FOR PRODUCE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22211, 11 September 1935, Page 16

PRICES FOR PRODUCE

MR. SAVAGE'S POLICY STATEMENT AND DENIAL [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] NEW PLYMOUTH. Tuesday In a reference in ft speech at Stratford to the guaranteed prices proposals of the Labour Party, Mr. W. J. Poison. M.P., said that two plans had been put forward by the Labour Party. There was Mr. Langstone's plan for exchange inflation and Mr. Savage's plan, which the latter had now repudiated. Mr. Poison referred to a statement made by the Leader of the Opposition at Stratford, that no conversation bptween himself and Mr. Poison, in reference to raising money for guaranteed prices by taxation had ever occurred, and that Mr. Poison, in any case, had no right to repeat a private conversation. Mr. Poison declared that the' conversation was not a private one. ,He had asked Mr. Savage in his seat in the Houso what was his real plan, and Mr. Savage had told him frankly that tho only thing to do was to raise money by taxation from those who could afford it. k ' The conversation, continued Mr. Poison, was a fairly lengthy one, and Mr. Savage now repudiated it. If jt were a matter of the speaker's word or Mr. Savage's, he would leave it there, but, unfortunately for . Mr. Savage, there was ample evidence that if he did not say this to himself '(Mr. Poison) he had said it to a number of other people. It was a curious thing that Mr. Jones, at Dunedin, Mr. McCombs, at Lyttelton, and Mr. Langstone, in his famous pamphlet, had'all referred to taxation as a means of raising money, and Mr. Savage himself, in his speech to tho last Labour conference, also did so.