MUST BE FACED

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 401, 9 December 1932, Page 5

MUST BE FACED

("Post" Speical Commissioner).

IMMEOIATE CONSIDERATION OF DOMINION'S PROBLEMS AMENDMENT IN HOUSE

Wellington, Thursday. • An attempt was made by the Opposition in the House of Representatives to-night to hold np the second reading of the Finance Bill to enable Parliament to consider means of meeting the Dominion's financial and economic difficulties and placing the national revenue and finances on a sound basis. The methods to be considered, it was suggested, should comprise the following : — (1) Restoration and stabilisation of purchasing power. (2) Guaranteed prices. (3) Raising of the incomes of farmex*s and workers, employed and unemployed. (4) Exchange rates. (5) Effective utilisation and organisation of currency and credit. (6) A bounty subsidy or bonus to primai-y producei*s. (7) The establishment of a moratorium. The amendment was moved by Mr, M. J. Savage (Auckland West) who maintained that the House should not adjourn until major measures set, out in the motion had been discussed. The Opposition did not necessarily pin its faith on all of those points. There wps room for difference of opinion about some of them, but there was no room for difference in acknowledging that the problem was one which had to be faced at onee. The amendment had been moved in the best spirit imaginable and he invited the Government to accept it in that spirit.