STATE CONTROL OF INDUSTRY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 250, 1 March 1911, Page 8

STATE CONTROL OF INDUSTRY

EXTENSION IN NEW ZEALAND ADVOOiS'ED, Auckland, Last Night. Mr. C. E. Russell, the American writer and Socialist, who has been visiting the Dominion, told an Auckland reporter that lie had been struck with the many things that had been nationalised in New Zealand, and was so pleased with the result that he wanted more. "As the Government controls transportation by land," he asked, "why should it no» do the same by sea, instead of allowing private companies to have monopoly? Them there is the question of insurance. The Government has undertaken certain branches of insurance, but Has halted, and left the work unfinished. New Zealand hns given the world a good example of what can be done, and I want to see the matter of State control further carried on," Mr. Eussell came to the conclusion that New Zealand is prosperous. He saw few slums, and the majority of the people appeared to have plenty of money. In many respects the working man in New Zealand was well off; he was certainly in a better position than the working man in older countries. "It is a very fine country," he said, "but there is a lot of land yet to bo filled, which should be utilised by the introduction of more immigrants." He thought the Government should bring out people in their own steamers to place on their own land