NEW LABOR MOVE
ECONOMIC INQUIRY
PREMIER NOT ENTHUSIASTIC
(Por Press Association.)
WELLINGTON, this day,
The Leader of the Opposition, Mr 11. E. Holland, in the House of Representatives yesterday, gave notice of liis intention to move that a special committee representative of all sections of the House be set up to inquire into the most effective means of meeting existing economic difficulties, and that such committee take into consideration the restoration and stabilisation of the i purchasing power, guaranteed prices,' .the raising of income for farmers and ■wage earners, employed and unemployed, exchange rates, the effective utilisation and organisation of currency and credit, a (bounty subsidy or bonus to primary producers, and the establishment of a moratorium, the committee to report to the House within 14 days. Questioned concerning Mr'Holland's, (proposal, the Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes , said that the Government did not con-1 iaider that the establishment of such a committee would he of any great use in meeting the country’s difficulties. Labor had not .taken part in the last investigation, putting all the responsibility on the Government,
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17944, 23 November 1932, Page 7
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179NEW LABOR MOVE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17944, 23 November 1932, Page 7
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