UNSUPPORTED REMITS

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 31, 31 October 1932, Page 6

UNSUPPORTED REMITS

Mire Purchase, New Trade BUSINESSMEN’S VIEWS By Telegraph.—Press Association. Dunedin, Oct. 29. A remit that iu the opinion of the conference the time has arrived, when the necessity ■ for the registration of all hire and customary purchase agreements of chattels should be reimposed was rejected by the conference of the Associated Chambers of Commerce. Mr. A. S. Burgess (Wanganui) was elected president for the coming year, and Mr. .1. P. Luke (Wellington) vicepresident. A remit asking the Government to appoint two well-experienced commercial men to visit the forthcoming Shanghai Exhibition and other portions of the East, with a view to opening up direct trade, was withdrawn. Mr. Stronach Patersou pointed out that if there were opportunities private enterprise could be relied ou to take them. Wheat Duties Not Wanted. M r. A. M. Seaman, on behalf of the Hamilton Chamber, moved a remit urging the abolition at the earliest possible date of all wheat duties. He said that the Auckland Association had not brought forward a similar remit because it‘ thought it ' unlikely that it 'would be given impartial and unbiased consideration. (Laughter.) There was no discussion, and the chairman said that the remit was unanimously rejected. The Hamilton Chamber also submitted a remit protesting against the action of the Government in placing the sole power of handling and distributing the milling wheat imported by it in the hands of the Wheat Marketing Board. Mr. A. F. Wright read a lengthy communication from the board covering the whole transaction regarding the importation, and saying that the board had made no charge for its services and had made no profit. The remit was unanimously withdrawn. Wanganui If. was decided to hold the next annual conference at Wanganui. In the afternoon au address was given by Mr. H. S. E. Turner, of Christchurch, who, in the course of his remarks, suggested that the Railway Board with the help of the Transport Board was trying to establish as nearly as possible a monopoly of transport. He felt sure that the result would bo the same as the result of all monopolies —unfair exploitation joined with inefficiency. • Real progress, said. Mr. Turner, had always been, and. would always be, associated .with progress in transport, and the object of the Railway Board if it were pursued diligently and with the powerful support of the Transport Board, would not be in the interests of vr ogress.