GROWTH OF STORES

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21733, 16 March 1936, Page 20

GROWTH OF STORES

PRIME MINISTER TO RECEIVI PETITION OF PROTEST (SPECIAL TO THE PRESS.) BLENHEIM, March 15.$ A petition, which has been signed by 75 of the, Blenheim retailers, is-fee be forwarded to the Prime Minis#? (the Hon. M. J. Savage) protesting against the continued growth of chaUj stores.' A comprehensive argument has been prepared, which is to be for; warded to each of the Cabinet Minis: ters. The petition reads: “We, the follow ing retailers in the town of iJlenheunjr express to you our concern at the tinned growth of chain and multiple stores throughout the Dominion and the menace they create to the wellbeing of the'large body of retailers with whom they come into unfair competition, to the detriment, in the flpa# result, of ,the taxpayers as a whole. Price-cutting, inequitable competition and cheap labour combine to create monopolies in the hands of power® organisations, to the ruin and eliming* tion of the legitimate single traded whose stability in the pagt has in « large a measure contributed ; to the strength and prosperity of the country*: ;We pray that you and members of Government will give earnest and ima mediate consideration, to the scriqnS need for regulating the chain stqafe system, and of ensuring reasonable, pm tection. for, the. Interests of ' tradsM manufacurers. and property owWSjs whose welfare is now so gravely threw® enedi" - - tV |i|