NATIONALISING BUILDING INDUSTRY NOT WHAT SOME PEOPLE THINK
(P.A.) Wellington, Feb. 24. Suggestions that the building industry in New Zealand should be nationalised were answered by Mr. H. J. Hulse, president of the New Zealand Federated Builders’ and Contractors’ Industrial Association of Employers, in his address to the annual conference of the association in Auckland.
The suggestions, he said, had, in the main, emanated from union secretaries and others who had not the ability and did not want the responsibility of starting in business, a right open to everyone in the Dominion.
“I can say, as one who has risen from the ranks of active unionism, that it seems very strange to me that such persons, who apparently know so little of the responsibility, concentration and organisation needed to build up a business, can think that the State could do better,” said Mr. Hulse. ‘‘lf the State is, as some think, able to do as well as private enterprise, it now has its opportunity to show what can be done to meet the needs of the industries and householders by producing sufficient coal for all.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, 25 February 1947, Page 5
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