CONTROL OF TRUSTS.
PROPOSED BOARD OP COMMERCE. [BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.]
Dunedin, Saturday.
The Hon. J. Millar told a Star representative that he thought a board of commerce should be set up to report whenever it became apparent that undue prices were being charged for the commodities of life. They should advise the Government as to what steps ought to be taken, and their report should be presented to Parliament before being acted on. That was the course that was being pursued in America, where trusts had been created, and it appeared to him a great deal better that machinery should be provided to deal with such things before they did become an established fact in this colony. r '■"■:' : ■■''■'■'. ; The Arbitration Act would be extended, he added, by the creation of provincial boards of wages consisting practically of experts in equal numbers on both sides to deal, immediately with disputes in any particular trade. Awards would be in existence not less than two, nor more than three years. Appeals to the Arbitration Court would be allowed in certain cases. The wages boards would be somewhat similar to those in Australia. ' , j
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13454, 3 June 1907, Page 5
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