GROCERS' DEPUTATION TO THE PREMIER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11434, 26 July 1900, Page 5

GROCERS' DEPUTATION TO THE PREMIER.

[BY TEMGRAPH.-FRESS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, Wednesday. A MUTATION from the Master Grocers' Association waited on the Premier this evening with regard to certain legislation now before Parliament. The deputation urged that the Imprisonment for Debt Limitation Bill should not be made retrospective. They approved of the Bill in other respects, believing it would do away with the credit system, but thought employers, including the Government, should pay weekly. Ihoy agreed with the Bill abolishing the trading stamp system, and urged that Chinese shops should h brought under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act; also, that if preference is to be given to unionists no man should be employed who had not had experience in the trade, and that only: men who . understood trade should vbe ', appointed to the Conciliation Board. 'The Premier replied that the Bill would probably go in the direction of printing coupons, at the Government Printing Office; and redeecj: able by tho post office at face value. The other questions, ; including Chinese shops', paying Government day labourers weekly, and ? omitting' the retrospective-? feature of the Imprisonment forDept Limitation Bill, would be cousideredj . " ■ ,