Mr Santon's Answer To Recent Remarks By Mr E. B. Corbett

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 68, 25 November 1949, Page 5

Mr Santon's Answer To Recent Remarks By Mr E. B. Corbett

With reference to the remarks of Mr E. B. Corbett, M.P. for Egmont, concerning the primary producer marketing system operated by the

vLfabour Government, Mr T. G. Sanyton said at Taneatua last night that Mr Corbett was quite incorrect in attributing to him remarks quoted from Mr W. Grounds’ an exmember of the Dairy Control Board, who had said that the Labour Gov- ■ ernment deserved the greatest credit for bringing in the guaranteed price to the producer. Concerning ' taxation figures

paid by a farmer whose income tax was £IBO, Mr Santon pointed out that the residue of income (£1800)

he had mentioned was the gross and not the nett figure out of which this particular man had to maintain his family aqd run his farm. Regarding Mr Corbett’s sugges-

tion that a greater output per unit of labour would reduce costs, Mr Santon quoted from a New ' York article in which Dr Colin Clark, Australian Government economist, had said that New Zealand and the United States led the world as regards production per man hour. Concerning the Nationalists’ suggestion that the Labour Party is

heading for Communism, Mr Sanlon gave it as his opinion that the only chance the Communists would ever have of getting the reins of office here would be in the event of the mismanagement of another slump by a Tory Government. That, he claimed, would cause the sort of dissatisfaction that led to the ac-

ceptance by the masses of violent and foreign political theories. Mr Santon addressed a meeting at the Board Mills yesterday at lunch time, about 40 being present. This evening he speaks to electors at Rotoiti at 6 p.m.. and at Awakeri at 8 p.m. Tomorrow he speaks at Ohope, and on Monday he will address electors at Manawahe at 2 p.m., at Matahina at 6 p.m. and at Edgecumbe at 8. Tuesday concludes the campaign—at the Waipa Mill at fi p.m. and at Rotorua at 8 p.m.