STATE RAPACITY

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21089, 15 July 1938, Page 13

STATE RAPACITY

INDIVIDUAL CAPITALIST OUTDONE By Telegraph —Pres? Afißncint'on WELLINGTON, July 14 "The policy of the Forestry Department in calling for tenders for silver pine at over the royalty rates displays a rapacity usually associated with capitalism and should be discontinued,” stated a remit submitted by the West Coast branch and adopted by the New Zealand Farmers’ Union at the annual conference to-night. Moving the remit, Mr P. J. O’Regan said the men who worked silver pine were of a type which did not call on the Government for help during the depression, preferring to work ardu-

number of years very little fencing was done, and the market rates for silver pine were low. During this time the men paid the royalty rates for timber. Now that the arrears of fencing were being made up and the market rates had risen, they were asked to pay a percentage over the royalty rates. The State was showing itself to be more rapacious than any individual capitalist. The West Coast branch considered that when a number of men wanted an area of silver pine they should be given the right to ballot for it, and the successful ones should be required to pay only the royalty rate.