Is the flame flickering?
The Prime Minister (Mr Muldoon) says he sometimes has misgivings whether “the flame of private enterprise” burns as brightly as it used to, the Press Association reports from Auckland. Free enterprise built New Zealand and continued to provide the basis for its wide-ranging social welfare system, Mr Muldoon said yesterday. “I have misgivings at times, however, as to
whether the flame of free enterprise burns as brightly as before,” he said. “Too many people today view’ our current situation, or aspects of it, as challenges to the Government “They fail to relate it to themselves as individuals and to the contribution they could make by their own efforts, with little or no Government assistnance. to greater productive effort unhindered by
disruptive, selfish, and anti-social disruptions. “Persisted with, those tactics will prove suicidal and endanger our competitive trading position, our standard of living, and our whole economy,” he said. Mr Muldoon was speaking at the opening of the new office and warehouse of a cosmetics manufacturers, Con-Stan Industries (New Zealand), Ltd.
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Press, 21 April 1979, Page 6
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174Is the flame flickering? Press, 21 April 1979, Page 6
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