STABILISATION PLAN

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24627, 7 June 1941, Page 10

STABILISATION PLAN

COMMITTEE'S REPORT SHELVED FARMERS DISSATISFIED <P A J CHRISTCHURCH; June 6. >'• ,; Before the. ink was dry on the Economic Stabilisation Committees re■po'rtv the Minister' of Finance.-Mr W. Nash, torpedoed it by increasing the wages of sawmillers on the west coast.", said Mr G. C Warren at_Ahe annual conference of the North canterbury -district of the New Zealand FarritjerfcUnion to-day. -He seconded a" the West Melton branch which the conference adopted, urging" the Government to implement recommendations of the committee-! *•"'••'^/-- : -• • ? V'■ '.'■ ■ -.'. :.'"Mr W'ajrreb. said that the Farmers ;Union hieitfiaken a major-part in, bringing about 1 the establishment of the Economic' "Stabilisation Committee. There-Bad never been a more representative ; body of men assembled, in New Zealand, and it had worked most amicably• inV'the preparation of the report, wbicl* should have been of very great value: ito the Government.' Any Government should to? have such a report upon which to work. Instead, the Government had. pushed to one side the findings of Jfce; committee and people in every section of the community were dissatisfied with the position. If this. conference was. able to bring any pressure to bear on the Government to implement the recent; mentations of the committee then it should do so. I The resolution, -which Mr Warren seconded, had been moved by Mr H. C. Wild. He said that the West Melton branch thought it was wrong that so few of the recommendations of thf committee had been acted upon 'J