BOARD OF TRADE:
ABOLITION ADVOCATED.
"WARTIME MEASURE ANOMALY."
In acknowledging the valued services of the secretary of his Department, (Mr. J. W. Collins), the Minister of Industries and Commerce, the Hon. J. G. Cobbe, said he would await with interest the report which that officer would make to him upon the deliberations of the annual conference of the Amalgamated Chambers of Commerce, now sitting in Auckland. When the president of the conference, Mr. C. P. Agar, thanked the Minister for his remarks, he acknowledged the confidence and goodwill which Mr. Collins enjoyed at the hands of the commercial community, but took the opportunity of making pointed comment on the powers which are vested in that officer under the provisions of the Board of Trade. "There is litle doubt that those powers were conferred as a wartime measure," said Mr. Agar. "They are beyond your power to deal with as they were given by Parliament, but I suggest that you should seriously consider the desirability of discontinuing the anomaly of what was a wartime measure, and that is the j Board of Trade." (Applause.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 243, 14 October 1929, Page 8
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