TRADE AND COMMERCE BUREAU.
TO THE EDITOR. Sib, —lt should be very gratifying to all connected with business, except sweaters and unfair traders, to know that the Government intends to create a Trade and Commerce Bureau. No doubt it will cause another howl from the Tories, and there will be the usual cry about interfering with the right of individuals to do as they please. But, nevertheless, such a bureau is absolutely necessary when wo taka into account the unfair trading which is taking place. Tha drapers cut lines outside their owaj business. The grocers do the earns, regardless of raining the unfortunate traders whose goods they are cutting. It ia a positive fact that many lines of goods ate sold retail at less than manufacturers’ cost, and this unfair traders call throwing a sprat to catch a mackerel. And then wa have the sweaters to contend against. Many business people would like to pay their employes fair wages, but they simply cannot do it owing to the sweaters working their unfortunate victims at starvation wages, and who cut tha prices of everything down below a living profit. This unfair trading makes things bad all round, and it is to be hoped that the Trade and Commerce Bureau will be the means of working a mighty change for the better. —I am, &o„ ' FAIR TRADER.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXX, Issue 10221, 15 December 1893, Page 2
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