“MULTITUDE OF VOICES”
APPEALS ,BY BUSINESS MEN MINISTER PUZZLED (Pee United Press Association) WELLINGTON, March 10. Replying to appeals by business men for less Government interference in business, the Minister of Industries and Commerce, Mr D. G. Sullivan, at the Wellington Chamber of Commerce annual meeting, said that the number of men who asked him for interference in their businesses was staggering. Business men seemed to him to speak with a multitude of voices. He read a list of over a dozen requests received ior action in governing industries in one form or other, ranging from fixing the prices of flour, bread, and benzine, to those of beer, meals, and funerals. The Government, with the best intentions in the world, would have great difficulty in discovering what business men really wanted.
“ The Government has no intention of striking out on a wholesale price fixation pqlicy,” he announced. "We shall investigate, where necessary, and go where the facts lead us in the way we believe to be in the best interests of the community.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22827, 11 March 1936, Page 10
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