“UNFAIR TRADING” BY POWER BOARDS
PROPAGANDA IN PRESS. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, May 24. A reply to statements appearing under tho name of tho “1928 Committee’’ in reference to trading by cicctrie pow 7 er boards was made at the secretaries’ conference to-day by Mr. Bceehe, of Hamilton, refuting what he termed the extensive propaganda in the press recently regarding alleged unfair trading on the part of power boards and of tho necessity, in tho interests of fair play, of bringing the boards into lino with companies and private traders as regarded the land and income tax.
Inter alia, he mentioned that the boards .could not raise their charges with impunity. They were in competition with petrol, and in any case were bound under their licenses by maximum charges. After discounting a state ment "with regard to tho building up of reserves, which was only sound business and should be approved by.any competent committee of business men, he said that, even if the allegation were correct, it had nothing whatever to do with the trading methods of the boards, and, further, showed tho anxiety of the “1928 Committee’’ to prejudice public opinion against the power boards.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6918, 25 May 1929, Page 6
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