GISBORNE PROTEST
Monopolies Granted To
Outside Firms (By Telegraph —Press Associatimi GISBORNE, June 21
At a meeting of producers, traders and consumers called by the Chamber of Commerce, a resolution was passed expressing resentment at the conferring of a monopoly on an outside firm for the handling of essential foodstuffs. Such restraint of trade, the resolution said, would lead to a diminution of supplies, unfairly penalize business, encourage black marketing, and react detrimentally to district consumers. A further motion was carried protesting against the “high-handed and dictatorial way in which the Minister acted in giving a licence to handle Gisborne district eggs to an outside firm, as there are already marketing facilities in Gisborne.”
Joseph Witana, farm hand, aged 17. was sentenced to Borstal detention for two years when ho pleaded guilty in the Magistrates’ Court, Wellington, yesterday, to two charges of converting motor-vehicles to his own use and another charge of converting a bicycle.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 227, 22 June 1944, Page 6
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155GISBORNE PROTEST Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 227, 22 June 1944, Page 6
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