GOVERNMENT POLICY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25213, 30 April 1943, Page 2

GOVERNMENT POLICY

PARTY RECOMMENDATIONS (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Apl. 29. Among the recommendations which the Labour Party conference to-day decided should be submitted to the Government were:—The rationing of honey, matches, syrup, and boot polish: the supply of boots and clothes to manual workers at near cost price; more drastic measures to deal with profiteering, the penalties for profiteering and black marketing to be similar to those existing in Australia; the displaying of Price Tribunal orders in shops to be more strictly enforced and the prices to be displayed on goods; imprisonment without the option of a fine for all price order breaches. It was recommended that, as the auctioneering system was anomalous inside the stabilised price system, it should be abolished, and also that the sale of tools and household utensils by auctioneers should .be abolished and commission shops set up to sell these goods at fixed prices. The Government is to be urged to foster the production of synthetic rubber for motor and cycle tyres from local or imported rubber, and also of substitute motor fuels.

It was urged that the Government should secure the benefits obtained by the zoning of milk and other products so that private enterprise does not profit by the system. The Government was also recommended to set up a commission of inquiry, with direct representation of the public service, and with full powers to inquire into the working and efficiency of State departments.