HOUSE TO HOUSE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 205, 31 August 1933, Page 5

HOUSE TO HOUSE.

HAWKER'S CALLING. NEW WAIHI REGULATIONS. BUSINESS PEOPLE SUFFER. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) WAIHI, this day. As fclio result of a deputation of business people whicli waited on the Waihi Borough Council some time ago the question of the repeal of the by-laws relative to hawkers and pedlars came up for discussion at a meeting of the council last evening. Draft proposals for new regulations were submitted in which provision was made with a view to embracing a certain class of hawker who had hitherto been evading the payment of fees. Under the present by-laws if a person receives an invitation to call at a house he is not deemed to be a hawker. It is considered necessary that this class of person should be under conti ol and licensed. A clause is included in the draft proposals bringing such persons under the heading of itinerant tradeis. During discussion it was pointed out that local business people suffered severely from the operations .of a certain class of travelling salesmen with goods for direct purchase or under hirepurchase agreement, a southern film dealing in soft -roods and general merchandise, and using three cars, having worked this district recently. The question was deferred for one month.