"BUSINESS PIRATES."
A DISCUSSION ON TENDERS.
(BY TELEGRAPH.—PHESB ASSOCIATION.) >
Auckland, Juno 23. ''There are a number of peoplo coming hers \rh° aro simply business pirates," declared Mr. Aapier at-tho Harbour Board meeting ,ml aft , onl °n during a discussion on tenders. 'They nave no business premises," he-wont oil to say, "but simply rent offices and act for people abroad. - It would bo unwise of the Board to encourage them. "\Yo should encourage our City, merchants who have established businesses and who trade through us and pay rents, and not allow people to como m and cry out for a shore of tho Board's business when they have no stake at all in the country. Thoy are nothing jess than trade pirates from America and elsowUsio, and their number is increasing. A great fraud was perpetrated on . the Railway Department and the Public Works Department once through brands of certain articles not being, specified •in tho tenders."
"I remember it," remarked the Hon. E. Mitchelson.. "I was Minister at tho time." ' Mr. J. Kneen joined in the discussion with tliQ remark "fchtifc sonic two yoars flpjo n cortain, brand, of oil was rejectod on board 0110 of'tho Board's vessels as useless. The samo oil was taken'back'oll board in another drum and was 'pronounced to be the best yet received.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 233, 25 June 1908, Page 3
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