STATE ENTERPRISE
POSITION IN QUEENSLAND. Interviewed in Sydney recently, Mr E. A. Moore, Premier of Queensland, made the following reference to State enterprises there: — “We are getting rid of State enterprises immediate.}’. Butchers’ shops, the State fish shop and the State produce agency will cease to function. The railway refreshment rooms will be handed over to the Raiway Department, and the profits from that undertaking will go to the railways instead of into revenue. The last Government transferred £25,000 from the profits on the railway refreshment rooms to the State produce agency. The Government ..wrote off £48,000 in respect of the fish shops and £89,000 from the cannery, and yet last year P the cannery only paid a profit of £4OO. None of these industries have given employment to one more man. The State cattle stations were established to provide the State butchers' shops with meat. Every pound of meat sold in those shops has cost the taxpayer foui-pence.
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 June 1929, Page 3
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159STATE ENTERPRISE Hokitika Guardian, 8 June 1929, Page 3
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