PROGRESS AND PREJUDICE
ASSISTING PRIVATE ENTERPRISE. LABOUR MEMBERS PROTEST. (Special to Times.) WELLINGTON, Tuesday. The Labour members of the Wellington City Council- —Mr. R. Semple, Mr. R. McKean and Mr. G. H. Chapman, all members of the House of Representatives— are protesting loudly against the Tramways and Electric Light Departments expending £39 in assisting a display of electric lighting, cooking and heating apparatus in the Town Hall. These good socialists argue that Hie council will tic subsidizing private enterprises at Hie cost of the ratepayers and that all Hie profits and advantages will remain with the voracious importers and dealers. The council itself, they insist, in addition to supplying current should supply all Hie aparatus and so secure all the profits. A majority of tile members of the council, however, had seen enough of the operation of municipal ventures -of this description and decided by twelve votes to three that it was better to enjoy the certain profits made out of electrical current than to embark upon the hazardous field of trade competition.
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Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 17837, 9 October 1929, Page 7
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