REPEAL SOUGHT.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 222, 19 September 1929, Page 23

REPEAL SOUGHT.

WAR-TIME LEGISLATION. COMMERCIAL MEN RESTIVE. STATE INTERFERENCE. Commercial men are becoming restive under the drastic provisions of the Board of Trade Act. Certain clauses introduced as a war measure by the coalition Government contain drastic provisions for the interference of Government in private enterprises. The Prime Minister, Sir Joseph Ward, stated, in a letter read to the council of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce this afternoon, that the matter of repeal of the objectionable sections of the Act was receiving careful consideration, but it was impossible to say yet whether legislation would be introduced during the current session. Fortunately the administration of the Act had been in the hands of far-seeing and capable Ministers and officials, said the president, Mr. H. T. Merritt, and there had not been as much cause for complaint as there would have been if an unsympathetic view had been taken by those in authority. The chamber had recently made representations to the Prime Minister to have the Act amended in the direction of removing some of the far-reaching provisions.