SPEECH FROM THRONE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 65, 17 March 1936, Page 8

SPEECH FROM THRONE

RADIO BROADCAST I ! GUARANTEED PRICES | Per P.e-» Aworiation. j HAMILTON. March 16. I Speaking at Te Mata in reference to guaranteed prices, the Minister of Agn-i.-ulure (the Hon. W. Lee Martin) said: ••I cannot dis' lose to you to-night what ; the Government ton templates. Howlever, 1 am convinced that this pre • gramme will meet with ihe approval uf the great body of public- opinion in this country. We shall introduce a scheme of guaranteed prices and I wish ( could tell you ar the present juncture all about it. It is the best secret that has ever been kept in this country, and it will be preserved until put over the radio i ••We do not say we are going to piea a e everybody? and already some people are telling n« what we should have done. They say we have not consulted the industry. This is incorrect. There i.« not a section, from the producer r o the distributor, that has no': been consulted. If ihos? who are conipla>ning had followed my suggestion and visited us in Wellington, or made representation’ in writing, they, too, would have been considered. When you find a section allowing three weeks to pass before saying anything it can scarcely bp regarded as playing the gam?. “When th? leojsla*i°a comes forward I am bold enough to suggest that it would have the support of over 90 per cent, of the producers.**