CHANGE OF POLICY URGED

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24697, 28 August 1941, Page 8

CHANGE OF POLICY URGED

ATTENTION TO INDUSTRIES (0.C.) WELLINGTON, Aug. 27. “If we want men we take them; but if we want money we plead over the, radio and put advertisements in the papers, begging men to help the Government to break its pledges and build up a debt that will crucify the soldiers,” said Mr J. A. Lee (Democratic Labour, Grey Lynn) during the second-reading debate on the National Development Loans Bill in the House of Representatives to-night. “A plague on , land development in the meantime," Mr Lee said. “Instead of talking about land, let us consider how to get men into industrial development. To develop the means of producing more butter and meat that we cannot export is a waste of time when we should be putting men into try."Is anyone taking stock of the commodities that are beginning to get into short supply?” Mr Lee asked, “We should be ascertaining the number of men available in the country, the number to be taken for the forces, and the industries to be developed. The future is full of desperate problems that are being thrust aside.”