SWEEPING INQUIRIES
TRADE PRACTICES IN CANADA. Ottawa, Feb. 10. One of the first pieces of business done by the Parliament of Canada at the present session, on the initiative of the Government, was appointment of a committee of eleven from the House of Commons to conduct a sweeping investigation of trade practices in the Dominion. The committee is headed by the Hon. H. H. Stevens, Minister of Trade and Commerce, and it will present a', least an interim report before prorogation. The committee is to investigate such matters as mass buying practices of chain and departmental stores, labour conditions in industries, the spread in price between producer and consumer, the relation between the flour milling industry and bakeries, methods of marketing livestock and animal products, the financial set-up of industries. Parliament is in the midst of a session which will be important and promises to be lengthy, with such matters before it as the establishment of a central bank, revision of the Bank Act, provision of a public works programme, and so on.
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Taranaki Daily News, 31 March 1934, Page 12
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