CASH ORDER SYSTEM
QUESTION ASKED IN HOUSE rFrora Our Parliamentary Reporter.! WELLINGTON, September 16. An inquiry whether the Minister for Finance (the Hon. W. Nash) would see that action was taken to prevent the exploitation of New Zealand workers through what is known as the cash order system was made by Dr. D. G. McMillan (Government. Dunedin West), in notice of a question which he gave in the House of Representatives to-day. Dr. McMillan asked whether the Minister had read In an Australian weekly newspaper an exposure of that modern method of separating workers from their earnings, euphemistically termed the cash order system. It had been stated that the interest rate on a £5 cash order worked out at 160.8 per cent, a year, and that the Sydney City Council had taken some steps to protect its employees from that exploitation. Dr. McMillan inquired also whether the Minister knew that companies proposing to carry on the cash order business had recently been registered in New Zealand.
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22200, 17 September 1937, Page 12
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