NO UNDUE PROFITS.
MANUFACTURE OF EARTHENWARE PIPES. BOARD’S ALLEGATIONS DENIED. [BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] CHRISTCHURCH, May 17. Following the publication of the text of a trade agreement of three drain and pipe manufacturers of Christchurch at the Drainage Board meeting on Tuesday night, the proprietor of the Home Bush Pipe Company, Mr. P. McSkimming, liag addressed a letter to the chairman pf the board repudiating the suggestion that the agreement was for the purpose of exploiting the board or the public. Mr. McSkimming contends that an agreement is necessary, because no single works in Christchurch can supply all the pipes required, and that only by the works concentrating on certain sizes can the output be sustained. In proof of ihis statement that lio undue profits are being made, Mr. McSkimming offers to produce his account books, and further offers to sells his works to the Drainage Board at the price he paid for them.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 19 May 1928, Page 3
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153NO UNDUE PROFITS. Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 19 May 1928, Page 3
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