Outline of Labour policy

"Our primary producers are not really competent at marketing — mainly because they are such good producers."

Mr Freer, Labour Party spokesman on industries and commerce, summed up remarks made to the Labour Party Club at Victoria University.

He was providing a reassessment of their 1966 economic and industrial policy, and outlining proposals for the future.

In the past there had been no co-ordination of production and marketing in New Zealand, he said.

Export marketing was now left to producer boards and private companies, who did not combine this very well with their principal function.

The main concentration of Labour's industrial policy would hinge on three organisations: a re-organised development finance corporation to be closely associated with a proposed developing and planning authority, an import-export corporation; and a state shipping corporation, Mr Freer said.