W.E.A.

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6668, 23 July 1928, Page 8

W.E.A.

“Are' Distributing Costs in New Zealand Too High?’’

: Attention is called to the fact that the next subject "td bo discussed at the W.E.A. meeting. on Tuesday evening will be tho. very vexed bnc of distributing costs, Mr. H. H. Sterling, the new generalmanager for the New Zealand "Railways, was to have been the speaker on “National Transportation Problems/' but that address'will now be given at some future t l . Kenneth Koss, tho

tutor will, as 'usual/give the opening lecture which will be "shorter than usual to permit of more discussion, the/demand for which has been gradually growing. The pain ground covered will be the" relative 'yalitps.land' importance of our fetairand "wh'biefiale distributing enterprises; including'the related pnos of shipping and other forms of transport, insurance, commission and indent agencies, and the possible extension of co-operative enterprises for both production, marketing, and distribution in place of tho present’; tendency toward State-control' by varihus boards. ■ It is generally' agreed now that it costs more to sell commodities than it does tb produce them—the question to bo faced hero ;is dne,that is not easy to answer—how can distributing costs be reduced if we are increasing our wants and ever turning what were once “luxuries” into ‘‘necessities.’' All questions and’ discussion are,welcomed; outadvertising coliim gives further particulars as to, nlg'ce. “ /