DRAPERS' CONFERENCE
“MUSHROOM BUSINESS.” RESOLUTIONS ON TAXATION MATTERS. Per Press Association. AUCtLKAND. March 19. The conference of the Federation of Drapers’ and Clothiers* was opened, Mr Tait, Dunedin, presiding. It was decided to take steps to stop wholesale houses supplying mushroom businesses, commonly known as sample rooms with goods as being a menace to the trade owing to underselling. The conference urged that the law and municipal regulations against itinerant sellers and auctioneers be strengthened. It was resolved to make overtures to allied traders and other retailers with a view to the creation of a Dominion executive representing all retail distributors. The conference urged the restoration of the penny duty on cheques, the remission of one per cent, primage, that gifts to national, civic and philanthropic objects not exoeeding 15 per cent, of income he deducted Lorn taxable income.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11783, 20 March 1924, Page 8
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