Wheat Purchase Board Condemned

Manawatu Times, Volume LVI, Issue 7064, 25 January 1933, Page 6

Wheat Purchase Board Condemned

OTITIC SAL VIOLATION OF CONSUMERS’ RIGHTS Per Press Association WELLINGTON, Last Night. • Emphatic condemnation of the setting up of tho Wheat Purchase Board to handle tho monopoly created by tho institution of tho compulsory wheat pool was voiced at a meeting of the coilncil of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce to-night. The Auckland Chamber asked for support of the resolution recently passed in which the Auckland Chamber feared that it was futile to protest against the Government’s continued cynictil violation of tho rights of the consuming public at the behest and for the benefit of a small producing minority which had so long been sheltered from the economic blast and warning the Government that continual interference in ordinary commercial economic processes whs intensifying tho effects of the depression and hindering recovery.

Tho Auckland Chamber also pointed out that it was extraordinary that the Board of Trade Act which was designed to protect tho New Zealand public against monopolies should bo made a vehicle for creating the most complete monopoly the Dominion had yet seen.

The motion that tho Wellington umniber endorso the resolution of the Auckand Chamber was carried.