Bill called insulting

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33963, 2 October 1975, Page 16

Bill called insulting

The Commerce Bill was yesterday described as the biggest gratuitous insult ever offered to the business community in New Zealand. The president of the Associated Chambers of Commerce (Mr A. M. Jolly) said last evening that the legisla-

tion carried with it the inference that every businessman had one aim in life — to squeeze the last cent of illegal gain out of the consumer. Speaking to the council of the Canterbury Chamber, Mr Jolly said that he failed to [see why the Government [should set about hampering the progress, and success, of businesses on whom it totally depended at the moment. "Without profitable businesses we have no future, and no business can make a profit if it is always filling in forms, and rejecting accusations of malpractice. “In an age when legislators are falling over themselves to give responsibility to almost every group which purported Ito be anti-capital, it must be I asked whether we are being [asked to pay a high price for [the co-operation of organised [labour.” Mr Jolly said. “Suffocating businesses in a mass of paper, and surrounding them with suspicion will not increase profits — and only profits make jobs,” Ihe said.