TO BE NO INTERFERENCE.
PREAIIER RE-ASSUKES BUSINESS AIEN. WELLINGTO N, Last Night. A suggestion from Christchurch that the Government intended to appoint accountants to investigate the affairs oi important firms, particularly to see the effect of the new industrial legislation, was specifically by the Prime Minister (Air Savage) in an interview to-night. “Such a suggestion has no foundation at all,” said Air Savage, “because it would imply for one thing that the Government is out looking for trouble. As L have said time and again from the public platform and elsewhere, we have no intention whatever of harassing business people and putting obstacles in their way. At the same time this does not mean that the Government will not watch very closely any tendency on the part of industry to take undue advantage of the changed conditions. “There can be no argument against the fact that if one industry is allowed to exploit the people and make undue profits it can only do that either at the expense oi some other industry or the consumers. Wo intend to watch developments of that sort and if necessary to make use of all the powers that are already available under tbo Board of Trade Act for dealing with exploitation. In the meant me our desire is to play the* nart of referee, seeing that both skies get a fair deal, because wo have.' already recognised that the man who pays wages is entitled to eons'deraticn as w« il as the man who re fives them.”
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13285, 17 June 1936, Page 5
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