IN DEFENCE.
i , CO-OPERATIVE TRADING. "INDIVIDUAL STORE MUST DIE." i (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) j WELLINGTON, this day. I A defence of co-operative trading was I made by Mr. A. W. Free in giving evi- | dence to-day at the chain stores inquiry i 011 behalf of the New Zealand Co-opera- ! tive Alliance, of which he is a director, j He claimed that the individual store j must die out, and said that legislation 1 to prevent its extinction at the expense of chain and departmental stores would be 011 a par with the machine breaking of last century. Dealing with the structure of co-operative trading, he said it was positively non-monopolistie. The tendency was towards co-ordinated distribution units, particularly thtrough the establishment of company chains, on the one hand, and consumers' co-operative societies on the other. In between were individual traders' co-operative buying organisations. These tended to disappear, and it would then be a contest between the dictatorship of a company and democracy of consumers' co-operation.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 245, 15 October 1936, Page 8
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165IN DEFENCE. Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 245, 15 October 1936, Page 8
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