SOCIALIZATION OF SERVICES
ALLEGED REQUEST BY FARMERS (From Our Parliamentary Reporter) WELLINGTON, September 17. The statement that farmers were requesting the socialization of some of the principal community services was made by Mr D. Barnes (Lab. Waitaki) during the Address-in-Reply debate in the House of Representatives today/ “We • are being frequently asked if we are Socialists,” Mr Barnes continued. “I might be a Socialist but I might have a different conception of Socialism from what members of the Opposition have. There are many farmers in my electorate who are definitely asking for Socialism—they are asking for the socialization of telephones, of electricity reticulation services and of rural delivery services. Already we are doing some of this socialization for them under the Mortgagors and Lessees Rehabilitation Act. We have been socializing some of their debts for them. Essentially Socialism presupposes a very high degree of intelligence and I do not think the members of the Opposition have that. “The Opposition has accused us of doing away with individualism,” Mi Barnes continued. “But is the only function of the Government to enforce contracts? Should it not be the job of the Government to protect citizens from all forms of robbery and to assist those who cannot help themselves?”
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Southland Times, Issue 23308, 18 September 1937, Page 8
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