TRADE ASSOCIATION.
; | DANGEROUS COMBINATION. COMMITTEE’S REPORT. " (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Thursday,*/;. Holding that tjhe Proprietary Articles Trade Association Is a combination detrimental to efficiency in distribution, likely to- unduly encourage the credit system, dangerous to the public interest and generally retrogressive, the majority of the Committee of Inquiry appointed by the Minister of Industries and Commerce (the lion. A. D. McLeod) recommends the Government to arrange if necessary for the making of regulations to prevent the association from operating in New Zealand. The member who dissents contends that the public interest would not be adversely affected by the operations of the organisation and that any governmental attempt at suppression would be difficult to enforce, and would hamper the business of the manufacturer and trader. Tho report‘was considered to-day by Cabinet and was released for publication by Mr McLeod. The committee consisted of "Messrs W. B. Montgomery, ex-Controller of Customs; W. R. Hayward, manufacturer, Dunedin; M. J. Reardon, ex-work-ers’ representative on the Arbitration Court; and J. W. Collins, Secretary of the Department of Industries and Commerce. Mr Hayward was the dissentient.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 29 April 1927, Page 5
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180TRADE ASSOCIATION. Wairarapa Daily Times, 29 April 1927, Page 5
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