"AGIN" THE MINISTER
, .'• at f 3? the obiecfc °* that legislation?'; asked Mr. W. D. Lysnar (Gisborne) in the House-of Representatives ; iast night s referring to the measures .Placed-on the Statute Book to give protection against the operation of commercial trusts. " '. ■ «^ r- fi A' £• Monteith (Wellington East): Confiscation:' ■:--■< v, a.;,<...,■■
«. do, not agree with that," replied .the speaker. " The action" unde/the legislation was confiscation,.'. but the legislation was actually . passed "to put trusts out of the Dominion; • Instead of -Idoing that, it facilitated their operation and enabled them to get a. grip over a company in an isolated part of the Dominion. ■■■ ■-•••■ • ■ — Liberal voices: " Wio-di'd it?"-"--' • *v ™- Snar: " The "'• authorities did— the Minister of Agriculture and the Meat .Board. ....•■ theni^ Mmt*itil":": *i 3 7Oa BlftP ort L 7 -M don't support the 111 ma^r' all he deserves'from me about it. I want to., see that no. oUier works. get, .mto the same position. We want 'to ■ protect the industries of the Dominion "' Liberal voices: " Hear, hear "' We should m that the same thins cloes not occur again'"; " ; : Mr:-MonteithT "We; will .have .to-gefi a new set of Ministers, then." ' No," said the speaker, "we will do it without a new set of Ministers-tliat is, JK the.Minister's..promise is worth" anything,- and I believe it is." Mr Lysnar saad he hoped tho session would not close without necessary legislation being: passed to exclude, trusts and com- ■ omes'from New Zealand '
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 28, 1 August 1924, Page 7
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235"AGIN" THE MINISTER Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 28, 1 August 1924, Page 7
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