RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXX, Issue LXXX, 27 April 1920, Page 5

RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED

BY CABLE—PSBSS ASSOCJATiON—COPYBIGHX LONDON, April 25. t The annual meeting of the Association of British Chambers of Commerce adopted resolutions deploring the detention of sliipping at portß and asking for an investigation with a view to the application of remedies, favoring the cessation of direct government control at the earliest moment. It was decided to deputationise the Ministry of Transport and urge the constitution of a Central Waterways Board to control canals. The meeting adopted a resolution declaring that the principle of war wealth taxation was unfair and impracticable, and urging the needs fof a gradual reduction in the national debt by taxations of current profits and current incomes, not by confiscation of capital, which was essential to the maintenance and development of industry. A further resolution approved the Government legislating to ensure that whenever a ballot referendum is uestd in industrial disputes the voting be conducted with the same secrecy as Parliamentary election*. j