CONDITIONS IN 1932

Hokitika Guardian, 26 October 1932, Page 3

CONDITIONS IN 1932

: CQJJJMERCTAL SURREY' OF, . .. . EFEI&TS.‘ l, V ? ON: GOVERNMENT AND BIJSI>'E3S. iWELRINGiON, October 25. / . Economic conditions. during the past year ana the differingviewpoints the s Government and business pepplf.on. certain topics'.are discussed .briefly W the report pf the' : executive' to #ej'-pg£ seßted at' tii? annual cbn'fetenopiVi l 4sbeiated',.'C!han?bcrs of Duiiediu tIL'N Week. 'The. exchange, 'poo-, regulations i v ued -JO ; .rronths ,pgo by ipe N the shb;e;t <!f : special comment?.. * “The last year,?;.. 4 ,ho s revealed V £ necessity for the'..,w-?y , '--.of;^fA;^Sß^ Jt '' j id oh. The burden''andi,resii‘Q:ti6it? upon I .hpsines^—irksome as, they were inprevious years--have bec^9ie. t .-.,mtolprabe in the third year of the' depression, and 'the. *vork of ■ resisting ’ further , . encroachment on the liberty to trade andr'rjitional burdens on trading in the interests, not alone of business people, but of our. Dominion and people as a vhol'eV has becom e one. requiring never.ceasing vigilance' and public enlighten-, pxent for the preservation of freedom: to do the business 'by which’ w© »!f, live. 1 "'--: .. .-■ ,’ v . ’ "."""j f •: ■ ■ .dftij?/-?.:, • t 1 STRAIN ON GOVERNMENT. . «■, ■“Tlu, ‘.strain Of the economic *%-• ati'on has been felt by government, both mtiutlal ,and local which, have tried to protect their' decreasing revenues, and antecedent aucl current ■" i-gS Fotfhf :gxt>‘en's»-, enterprise ill iritfc,-, mer- a and the prof .parchE regard- for' tim is only by the" result': of encouragement to ;protpeiduH trading' that' any meint can' contilh’d h live, ’’’i' ™ ; ‘‘The two' repovfs.,cf:.t. ‘e, , N|tional , penditure Cinimission hate' lipw. . confirmed the attitude which-this association has Tor several years Taken hip on th| question «f the .burden' oT'pubhc; expendituidi dttd %effpsS;ite|a? made to resist and’’l'hdtlbe thin- -iflipdSitidli on tto business of. the Dominion. These reports justify and necessitate our continuance to urge thes e .reforms.

diverging VIEWS/ ‘‘The apparently cynical ihdiff-erence on, the pift of the Government D/ tlil 1 -'fleets on individual cdtiimeTcial business of ‘the exchange poo:! ¥egttlaiionst issued by Order-in-Councii laet Cbi’-'St-mas Eve, for the purpose of -providing; the Treasury ,and local bodies with .a. short; way out of their own overseas, monetary difficulties, indicates what: would happen had the ••commercial com-. nnmity no .organisation f°r **- s I? I **') fectioa.. it seemk That there is b, real danger "iii tilds 'Dominion (which .Vs accumulated the S! h ghe-st debt per capita pf its population In tile world) of a divergence; wduclt ‘ Jilight become an antagonism, between ’'Vf'Hs view of .those : .responsible for governs mejnty . that'the'd method in the short view of upholding ;fhe. credit and-.pres-tige of ,ti]G State must be' carried out dt pall'costs, and -tilie view of Whose fegpdiijSi'b’e for' the business -of the community that 1 the cost and burden ■. of. government me t be strictly proportionate to what the resources of “the " Dom-. in ion can afford, and business ooH. bear. . .

i*f‘lt might well become : the' - function. of ' this association,’’ the report states, “to . pfevent' 'the incipient antagonism from growing, and-to d-'Scover. a via media along" which-" both" can,, travel in : fdthre >! toward the commonend of’tied,general'good.” . ' ' ’