COMMODITIES OF LIFE.
REGULATING PRICES. ' [NT TELEGRAPH.— FHES.3 ASSOCIATION".] DUNEDIX. This Day. The Hon. J. A. Millar told a Star representative that he thought a Board of Commerce should be set up to report whenever it became appircnt that undue prices were being charged for the commodities of life. The board should :idvi".r> the Government as what ."-tops ought to ho taken, the tt-port to be presented to Parliament before being acted on. That w.i.s the couiso being pursued in Amciica, where trusts had been created, and it appeared to him better mathineiy .should be provided to de.il with kucli matters beforo they did become an established fact in this colony. The Arbitiation Act would be amended by tlie creation of piovincial boards of contesting practically ot experts in equal numbers 011 both side* to deal innneditely with disputes 111 any particular trndr ; awards to he in existence not lehs than two or more th.in three years. App/cp.ls to Arbitration Court iiotilil be allowed in certain case.-. The wage* bouid -would bt somewhat iinnlar to those in Austra ha.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXIII, Issue 129, 1 June 1907, Page 6
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179COMMODITIES OF LIFE. Evening Post, Volume LXXIII, Issue 129, 1 June 1907, Page 6
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