STATE TRADING DEPARTMENTS
ABOLITION OF PRIVILEGES ! SUGGESTED (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) AUCKLAND, November 3. Unfair privileges allegedly enjoyed by various State trading departments were attacked by Mr A. M. Seaman (Auckland), at the conference of the Associated Chambeis of Commerce to-day. He submitted a remit "di awing attention to the unfair privileges accorded the State as a trader under the Municipal Corporations Act, the Crown Suits Act, | and a. variety of other statutes, and urging the abrogation of all Sta.e privileges where the State operates as a trader in competition with private enterprise." The remit asked, he said, that the State as a trader should receive no privileges that were not accorded to the private trader with whom it entered into competition. TWe privileges of the Crown as a litigant were very far-reaching. Government departments were exempt from, much industrial legislation, and oi from complying with local authority by-laws, and the Crown was exempt from harbour dues. The remit was adopted.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22550, 4 November 1938, Page 12
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