GIFT COUPONS
DOMINION ACTION APPROVED. The decision- of the New Zealand House of Representatives to make illegal all forms of coupon gift trading has been receive.d in British industrial and commercial circles with great satisfaction, says the “Daily Telegraph/’ Sir William Peering, president of the London and Suburban Traders’ Federation, said that New Zealand had driven another nail in the coupon coffin. Public opinion against this pernicious system in Britain was steadily growing. Air Alexander AfacLaren, general secretary of the National Federation of Retail Newsagents. Booksellers, and Stationers, said his federation hoped that New Zealand’s example would be followed by Britain’s new Parliament. Coupon free “gift” trading was inimical to the public interest, and entirely against the whole principle of wise spending which the Prime Alinister recently advocated.
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Hawera Star, Volume LI, 15 December 1931, Page 7
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128GIFT COUPONS Hawera Star, Volume LI, 15 December 1931, Page 7
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