CHAIN-STORE INQUIRY
Business Men Fear Victimisation
COMMISSION SUGGESTED
By Telegraph—Press Association. WELLJ.NGTON, Sept. 17.
Further evidence in support of the retailers’ petition to Parliament asking for legislation to control the activities id <|.uin department stores was heard by the Industries and Commerce Committee of the House of Representatives.
Before resuming evidence, Mr A. D. Wylie (lor the petitioners) puf in a letter fiom the Master Butchers’ Federation of Zealand withdrawing its signature from the petition, but he said that the withdrawal was solely due to the inability of the association to give imancia. support, as the butchers were behind the petition. Mr Wylie suggested that the committee should recommend the setting up of a Royal Commission so that business men could give evidence in support of the petition not only in Wellington but also throughout New Zealand, wdh the Press present. Many business men woma not come before the committee because of fear <>t vicnmisation. Viet.m.'tution was rife throughout New Zealand, he said, and he knew business men who would am come forward because they feared that they would lose business if they did so. A Royal Commission would remedy that. Asked why some petitioners had written to the committee saying their signatures had been obtained by misrepresentation, Mr Wylie contended that it was not possible for a person of common sense to sign a thing without leading it. There were only two lines to read in the petition. The hearing was adjourned until next Wednesday.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 236, 18 September 1936, Page 7
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