PROFITEERING!

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2334, 27 September 1921, Page 3

PROFITEERING!

Mr W. H. Field, the always-alert and discriminating member for Olaki, is asking the Government if it is “aware that profiteering is still rife in the Dominion?” Profiteering! Why, everybody imagined it as dead as Hie dodo 1 Does the member for Otaki “smell a rat,” which he proposes to “nip in the bud,” or is merely romancing? Of course, the Government is not aware! It never was aware! If never will be aware! All llie talk of profiteering has been the creation of enemies of the Government, who would use any old -dick with which to beat formdrs. Mr Field is a supporter of Ihe Reform Party, and he must know that this party would not .-deep at nights if it imagined it possible that any individual in the community was profiteering. Has it not set up a Board of Trade, and a host of subsidiary committees, and a whole barrowful of etceteras, to run to earth ttie man who would sell a threepenny tin-whistle, for fourpence? What information has Mr Field in his possession that leads him to suppose that profiteers are .-.till stalking the land? Who arc the profiteers? Where are they? Are they the milk-vendors, the sau-sage-makers, the sugar-candy manufacturers, the hairdressers, the tailors, the farmers, the lawyers, or what? Mr Field should relieve the public tension that has been created by his remarkable discovery, and should slate boldly and unequivocally who would dare to exploit the public by selling their goods, or labour, or what-nots, for more than they are worth. —M.D. Times,