REHABILITATION POWERS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 85, 29 June 1943, Page 2

REHABILITATION POWERS

REJECTION OF A REMIT

The following remit from Waiknto Avas moved by Mr G. Walsh :

"In view of." the recent debate and decision by tlie Auckland Primary Production Council re confiscation of freehold property for rehabilitation purposes, that steps should be immediately instituted with the object of overhauling the personnel of a 1 Primary Production Councils, and all institutions not directly connected therewith to be eliminated;.

a Government nominee to be entitled to a seat, but' not to be eligible for chairmanship. We are of opinion that all farming organisations. should be adequately represented. There is grave danger that adverse interests may use the Primary Production Councils to circumvent. our genuine, farm representatives. The general construction of all Councils throughout New Zealand to be uniform." The Dominion President (Mr WW. Mulholland) said that the present constitution of the Primary Production Councils seemed to imply that they would, expire at the end of the war. Nearly all that Avas suggested in the remit Avas already within the scope of the Councils — as at present constituted. The Provincial President (Captain H. M. Rushworth) said that, if the Councils function Avas to carry out the Government's, policy it would seem that the first part, of the remit Avas based oil inaccurate premises, since it assumed that the. Councils had some sort of say as to policy. That. Avas. clearly not the case. Special rehabilitation councils were already being set up. The question of rehabilitation did not at present come within the. functions of primary production councils. The remit was amended, by deleI tion of preamble, but Avas lost.