CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
ANNUAL MEETING ELECTS NEW PRESIDENT POLICY EXPLAINED The Chamber of Commerce stood for free enterprise, which it maintained was the form of commercial endeavour which provided the best result in the long run for the people as a whole, said Mr A. C. Stephens at the annual meeting of the Dunedin Chamber of Commerce last night, when he was elected president. There had been grounds for criticism of free enterprise in the past, he added, but modern measures of control now existed for the protection of employees and the removal of objectionable features. Free enterprise was the only system yet devised which would produce goods and services in sufficient volume and at reasonable cost to the consumer. “ The chamber opposes the multiplication of Government departments and the extension of Government activities beyond those utilities which are generally accepted as the proper functions of government,” he said. x “On these fundamental provisions there can be no compromise. The chamber endeavours to act in the host interests
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26540, 15 August 1947, Page 6
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