CONTROL OF WHEAT

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 103, 25 January 1933, Page 8

CONTROL OF WHEAT

Chamber of Commerce Enters Protest WELLINGTON SUPPORT Emphatic condemnation of the setting up of a Wheat Purchase Board to handle the monopoly created by the institution of a compulsory wheat pool was voiced at the meeting of the Council of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce last night. The Auckland Chamber asked for support of a resolution recently passed, in which the Auckland chamber feared that “it was futile to protest against the Government’s continued cynical violation of the rights of the consuming public at the behest and for the benefit of a small producing minority which has so long been sheltered from the economic blast, and warning the Government that its continual interference with the ordinary commercial hnd economic processes was intensifying the effects of the depression and hindering recovery.” The Auckland chamber also pointed out that it was extraordinary that the Board of Trade Act, designed to protect the New Zealand public against monopolies, should be made the vehicle for creating what is termed the most complete monopoly the Dominion had yet seen. Mr. W. B. Matheson: I am in agreement with that, and always h“ave been. The president, Mr. J. ■ Pearce Luke, said that the matter would be dealt with this week by the Associated Chambers of Commerce. He moved that the Wellington chamber endorse the resolution of the Auckland chamber. Mr. Luke’s motion was carried.