RADIO APPARATUS
SALE BY POWER BOARDS PROHIBITION DECLINED [I3Y TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] "WELLINGTON, Friday A request that the Electric Power Boards Act be amended so as to prevent power boards from trading in radio equipment was declined in a letter from the Minister of Public Works, tho Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates, read at the meeting of the executive of the Associated Chambors of Commerce to-day. The association, in its communication, pointed out that the proper function of power boards was to distribute current, and such boards had been originally set up as distributing agents for electric power 011 behalf of the Government. Trading by power boards in appliances was a latter-day development. Since power boards were exempt from land and incomo tax and other charges borno by their private competitors, the latter were suffering from unfair competition. In reply, tho Minister said that his predecessor in oflieo had considered the question in 1931 and decided to take no action. Ho regretted that as the position governing tho matter had not materially changed in tho interim, he could not see his way clear to depart from that decision.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21450, 25 March 1933, Page 10
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