STATE COMPETITION

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17952, 2 December 1932, Page 4

STATE COMPETITION

REAL ESTATE BUSINESS “OFFICERS WITH MOTOR-CARS” Criticism of Government competition 'P the real estate business was voiced 'it the Inst meeting of the Auckland committee of the Real Estate Institute, t wa.s stated that recently the staff of the local office of the State Advances Depart ment had been increased from lour to 12 and that the officers lia-• • icen provided with a motor car Ifngji in ai'der that the rents might be cnlWted ■y civil servants instead of land agents, as formerly. Members pointed out that, whereas a number of agents made small • ommissions out of this work, it was now to be done at an immensely increased cost bv Government officers. kcycral speakers referred to the keen competition of the Public Trustee, the .1 own Lands and other departments, md said that in these difficult times it seemed unfair that- taxes had to he paid to a Government- which .seemed anxious to absorb a largo share of the real estate 1 ■recess. The competition was unjust, difficult to combat, and it was impossible for business to recover in the face of so much political interference,