INTERNAL MARKETING UNDER FIRE

Chronicle (Levin), 17 August 1946, Page 7

INTERNAL MARKETING UNDER FIRE

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WELLINGTON, August 1(5. The debate 011 the. :unmul report aud accouuts of the Intori/al Marketing Division was coutiuued l>v Alr. Ridlands (Ifoskill) in the Ilouse. He deelared Kew Zealand was beller oit siuce the advent of the Internal .Marketing Division than under the "old nierehaul eontrol. " He said tliat grapos, tomaloes, peaches, plums, straw berries and cherwero fruits whieli weri? not control- > 1 by the Division anl beeause of tliat i. was not imeoinmon to see in shops sueh priees as Kis to l^s a lb. for grapes, a shilling each for peaidies, nnd iive. six and seveu shillings a pouru! t'or eherries. It was only beeause of the cooperation and assislanee oi' the Division tliat the jmblic was able to gel fruit and vegetables at reasonable priees. 11 r. II. T. .Merton ( Waiteiuala i said eonsumers should be proteetcd from the aetixities ot' the Internal -Marketing Division. The worst feature of the Division \s aetivities was its arbilrary aetions which led to the lnaldistribution of t'ruits in sliort supply. (iovermnent speakers had suggested tliat shortages in eertain paris oi' the eountry were due to ihe shortage oi' eoastal shipping, but the faet was ihat it took l'ar l.niger to load and unload eoastal ships than it took ten years ago. The Internal Maiketing Di\ isioii was a lamentable liaseo 1'roiu ihe eonsumers ' poiut >f view. Alr. A. G. Osborne i Onehunga > in answer to erit ieisms of ihe Division, said tliat the Oppo>itioa was nnn-ii niilder in its erit ieisms than it was in previous years.