NATIONAL RECONSTRUCTION.

Otago Witness, Issue 3403, 4 June 1919, Page 40

NATIONAL RECONSTRUCTION.

VIEWS OF RETURNED SOLDIERS. SCHEME SUBMITTED TO GOVERNMENT. ' WELLINGTON, June 2. Tho New Zealand Returned Soldiers' Association has addressed to members of Parliament and public men and bodies in this country a statement of, the case for national reconstruction as viewed by the association, and requesting practical support to the main features of the scheme submitted. They are: Firstly, tho Government to require those connected with each individual industry (employed and employing) to furnish a report covering the present and prospective dominion requirements of industry in respect to (a) man-power, (b) tariff, ''(c) capital, (d) necessary supplementary industries. Secondly, the Government to summon a dominion industrial and repatriation conference to examine and colltae reports with the object of forming a constructive policy for tho whole dominion, and refer particularly to (a) tho best distribution of our available man-power, {b) tho desirability of advancing State capital for the initiation and development of industry, (c) the establishment of new industries, (d) the desirability of State ownership of particular industries and services, (e) a dominion scheme of hydro-elec-trio power, (f) a unified scheme of roading, railways, and communications generally, (g) a fiscal policy for the dominion, (h) recommendations for Empire policy.