POSITION OF THE DIGGERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 222, 19 September 1928, Page 6

POSITION OF THE DIGGERS.

(To the Editor.) Your correspondent "E.M." offers evident of little value in support of the Kauri Gum Control Act and the board set up under nnr of that Act. No possible argument can iustHW an Act of Parliament which viciously ere one section power to set up in business confab the output of its competitors, and at the sum time extract a subsidy from them. Such» enactment can only be characterised as a nin» of iniquitous class legislation that is a etan? ing disgrace to the Government that it on the Statute Book and allows it to in operation. Your correspondent mentimS the diggers as being "an existing force intt. gum industry." The Government evident)? does not regard them as such, for durinstll last session a petition containing eorne 63ft signatures of diggers was presented to Parlk ment asking for the repeal of the powers of the Kauri Gum Control Board. Unfortunate]* it got nowhere. It is apparent, therefore. tWt the diggers themselves do not wish to be foreri to sell their gum through the board or continue to. pay the enforced subsidy or approve ofS« presence of the Act. LIBERTY