NEW PLYMOUTH .CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 8096, 27 September 1904, Page 3

NEW PLYMOUTH .CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

NEW PLYMOUTH, Sept. 26. At a meeting of the Chamber «f Commerce to.nklT» to t consider the Trade Monopolies l&vwitHm BUI, the following , risolutic#'» was paased: "That this Chamber is tf opinion that although in many instances combines and trades associations may result in no dJMdvanUg« to the public, the tendency towards monopolies in the articles mentioned in th» mU % »«»»<* to^Wmate trade, soch aa t». compel the Oovernment to frame law* so as to pMvent.*btties in this ' diwoUom but «*.. .£ strongly* opposed to ithe pwtWftW of the Trade MonopolJet* Prevention Act, 1904, in its preaent state, .«■ being too drastic, irritating, and likely to ,do harm by prtventini %(A .W^^^^n^ Kopes and the beg wav of pwventintt them, as with full information the k&lffi' }**y & be »tWactory than if enacted fcwrriedly and with°WlfMtf"-! through connection fcewten Awkland and Donedin, a motion «w*a carri# , affirming the great import«oe* of the mail train connecting with i£?attam«ra at Wellington, co that the latter; «ftteh the train at Lyttelton next Soming Ut Dunedin, so malting through *»Wto>iofi wttfcout unnecessary delay.