BOARD OF TRADE.
ITS FIRST INVESTIGATION. [From Our Correspondcst.] WELLINGTON, February 19. When the newly-appointed members a f the Board of Trade meet in Wellington next month, their first duty will be to confer with the board's president, th« Prime Minister. The direction o the board's activities will, of course, rest mainly with Mr Masscy, and from what nan be learned in official circles the National Cabinet is keenly anxious to makeup for the delay in appointing the hoard by getting it to direct its extensive powers of inquiry into one or U o channels from which results are expected Ministers arc said to be. gvcatlj dissatisfied with the way in which local consumers in some parts o New tea-1-nd hat© been overcharged by battel merchants, and it may be taken for granted that they will bo the first section of the business community to receive official' attention.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17097, 21 February 1916, Page 7
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148BOARD OF TRADE. Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17097, 21 February 1916, Page 7
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