THE TRADE INQUISITION.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 12228, 14 December 1920, Page 5

THE TRADE INQUISITION.

| (Per Press Association.} •AUCKLAND, Last Night. The Auckland Prices Investigation Tribunal has had its attention drawn to the charges being made for express delivery, by several complaints made against firms conducting that class '■ of business. As the result or investigations, the Tribunal has come, to feel strongly that the whole question of express delivery should re- ■ ceive the earnest consideration of the Board of Trade, and a report has been prepared to be forwarded to the Board, strongly urging it to make representations to the' Postmaster-Gene-ral, with a view po the postal authorities increasing the scope of their parcel post system, by the addition ot an express agency, if the Board thinks proper to make the representations outlined to the postmaster. The report proceeds: —"The Tribunal urges that similar representations should be made to-the General Mani ager of Railways, with a view to his department issuing through bills or I lading from the North to the South Island, and vice* versa, and increasing the radius of its deliveries in. all towns, thus making it possible to consign heavy parcels from Auckland to Invercargill without the assistance of a private carrying firm, in so far as the consignor and consignee are concerned. By the Departments increasing the scope of their sources as indicated, a great benefit would be conferred on all classes of the community, ' for many of the charges made now by express delivery fiims can only be characterised as iniquitous.