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DAY OF INDIVIDUAL STORE OVER DEFENCE OF CO-OPERATIVE TRADING [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, Ocoher 16. A defence of co-operative trading was made by Mr A. W. Free, giving evidence to-day in the Chain Stores inquiry, on behalf of the New Zealand. Co-operative Alliance, of which he is a director. He claimed that the individual store must die out, and said that legislation to prevent its extinction at the expense of chain, and departmental stores would be on a par with machine breaking of last century. Dealing with the structure of cooperative trading, he shid it was positively non-monopolistic. The_ tendency was towards co-ordinated distribution units, particularly through the establishment of company chains on the on© hand, and consumers’ co-operative societies on the other. In between were th© individual traders’ co-operative buying organisations. These tend to disappear, and it would then be a contest between the dictatorship of a company and the democracy of the consumers’ co-operation.
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Evening Star, Issue 22470, 15 October 1936, Page 10
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159MUST DIE Evening Star, Issue 22470, 15 October 1936, Page 10
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