CONSUMERS’ COUNCILS
FORMATION IN BRITAIN. BILL READ A SECOND TIME, (United Prefla Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, May 8. (Received May 9, at 9 p.m.) A Bill embracing the Government’s proposal to establish consumers’ councils with powers to search tradesmen’s books, while the Board of Trade will have power to fix the prices of commodities, was read a second time after an amendment by Sir Philip Cunliffe Lister for rejection of the measure was defeated by 266 votes to 202. The mover characterised the Bill as meaning “ Freetrade for our competitors and ■ fetters for our own in dustries.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21022, 10 May 1930, Page 13
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