TE AROHA BUSINESS MEN.
Mr. A. D. Wallace presided at the monthly meeting of the Te Aroha Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday. The Tourist Department wrote agreeing to provide £10 towards an advertising booklet of an issue of 5000. The chamber agreed to reply that the eum was totally inadequate. The president intimated that arrangements were being completed for a new motorists' camping ground at Te Aroha. The Cambridge Chamber asked supp t of a resolution favouring the abolition of the C.O.D. parcels post system as prevailing between England and the Dominion. The chamber concurred. Mr. E. Rayner stated that the system had grown from £12,000 in purchases in 1927 to £100.000 in 1928. If reciprocal arrangements existed at the other end so as New Zealand could benefit, the position would be different. Objection was taken to the postal service acting as debt collectors for Home merchant®.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 200, 24 August 1928, Page 13
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