MR NORDMEYER CRITICISED

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25799, 21 March 1945, Page 4

MR NORDMEYER CRITICISED

CHANGING MINISTER'S POLICY (P.A.) AUCKLAND, Mar. 20,

The Acting Minister of Supply, Mr Nordmeyer, came in for some caustic criticism 'at a largely-attended meeting of members of the Auckland Master Grocers’ Association last night. It was stated that matters had deteriorated ever since last November, when the Minister of Supply, Mr D. G. Sullivan left for overseas.

A resolution was passed unanimously that the meeting should place on record its strongest objection to the manner in which Mr Nordmeyer had, during the absence of Mr Sullivan, altered, or attempted to alter, established trade policies. Examples quoted were the preferential treatment extended to the Huntly district co-operative store, the endeavours of Mr Nordmeyer to insist that grocers should wrap all bread sold over the counter, and his action in abandoning the system of registration of sugar customers. The meeting affirmed its desire to cooperate with the Government in the successful prosecution of the war, and to this end urged the resumption of the relationships which always existed prior to the departure overseas of Mr Sullivan.