STATE ENTERPRISE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 229, 6 March 1915, Page 5

STATE ENTERPRISE.

MR BOLIVIAN'S BIG SCHEMES, MONOPOLY OF FOOD SUPPLIES. By Cable Press Association— Copyright. m. tt 7 ~ 'V-noy, Jfnrch 5. Mr Holinan, addross/ng a mooting of the Labour Coimci!, sa id the possibility o. uoikers further improving their wages position was rapidly approaching the limit of wnat could 1„> dwi.J by arbitration and industrial legislation. Tiie S "'P mis to aim, not so much at cutting more wages, but at making wages go further. After tracing the increase in the cost of living lie denied that it was due to the rise of wages and announced that the Government proposed to create a market authority havin" complete control of the whole food supplies of Sydney, which would first lie controlled by the Government and afterwards handed over to the Greater Sydney Council about to be created He outlined a State scheme for dealing with and improving meat, fish, vegetable and fruit supplies.

Mr Hail stated tlyjt the Government was starting abroad trust in Sydney by taking over the monopoly, of the bread supply and paying bakers for their business on the basis of so much per ton. They had first started in a limited area and found that the State bakery vns able to sell bread at a penny per loaf below the present p-ice. This would mean saving a million and a quarter annually.