SHOP MONOPOLY IN STATE HOUSING AREAS
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, Oct. 12. There was another clash between the Chairman of Committees (Mr Clyde Carr) and members of the Opposition in the House of Representatives this evening. Mr J. T. Watts (Opposition, St Albans) was attempting on the Housing Construction vote to discuss whether the-State should allow only consumer co-operative concerns to trade in State-built shops or whether private enterprise operators should be allowed to tender.
The Chairman ruled that it was in order on the vote to discuss what shops should be built, but not who should occupy them. The Leader of the Opposition (Mr S. G. Holland) said the House was surely entitled to discuss what use was to be made of such a huge sum of money as was to be spent, but the Chairman maintained fiis ruling and would accept no further discussion on the matter.
A reduction of £5 in the housing construction vote as an indication that the House considered private traders should be allowed to operate in State housing area, which, he said, were now being kept as monopolies for co-operative stores, was moved by Mr W. J. Broadfoot (Opposition, Waitomo) this evening. This was defeat-, ed on a division.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 13 October 1948, Page 3
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