SALE OF TOBACCOS
TRADING METHODS ATTACKED.
APPEAL TO' GOVERNMENT.
The methods adopted by certain retail traders in tobacco lines in New Zealand are assailed in several netitions presented to Pairliamemt) on Tuesday. It is stated that under existing conditions it is quite impossble for a large number of retail tobacconists in the Dominion to continue in business on a payable basis. Petitioners .state that unfair and uneconomic trading in tobacco lines has been made possible by the stocking and sale of other lines of goods which are sold at prices sufficiently high to show a. payable profit on the: entire trading accounts of the traders concerned. The apparent .gain to consumers of tobacco in the way of low prices, it is said, is of a temporary nature, and will ultimately give place to monopoly in manufacture and sale of tobacco. ~ . With the object of establishing fair trading conditions in the retail tobacco ''trade, developing the tobaccogrowing industry, <tnd protecting the consumers of tobacco, against monopoly prices, the petitioners ask the Government to exercise its authority under the Board of Trade Act, 1919.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 27 September 1933, Page 9
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182SALE OF TOBACCOS Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 27 September 1933, Page 9
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