LABOR’S REMEDIES
NATIONAL .DIFFICULTIES FINANCE BILL DEBATE (Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, this day. A determined attempt will be made by the Labor Party in the House this afternoon to hold up the Finance Bill on the grounds that consideration should first be given by Parliament to means of meeting the Dominion's financial and economic difficulties and placing the national revenue and finance on a sound basis.
The- methods proposed for achieving this aim are:
(1) The restoration and stabilisation of the purchasing power. (2) Guaranteed prices. (3) The raising of the incomes of tanners and workers, employed and unemployed. (4) Exchange rates. (5) Tile effective utilisation and organisation of currency and credit.
(6) A bounty, subsidy, or bonus to primary producers. (7) The establishment of a moratorium.
Mr. M. J. Savage, who is to be the first Labor speaker on the Finance Bill, is expected to move an amendment to the second reading in terms as set out above.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17957, 8 December 1932, Page 11
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