Members Question Ministers

Chronicle (Levin), 6 August 1948, Page 7

Members Question Ministers

WELLINGTON, August 9, At questipn time in* the. House of ReprcsentativeS; today, .Mr. W.vH., Wil*' lespie (Hurunui, Oppositiou) gave..notiee to ask the Ministor of I'ndustri'es and Gouinierce if the GOvernmcnt was aware that a eonsimier eooperatiye in Wellington registered under the nUme of Wellington Giti/.ens' Cooperadve Society Ltd." and having'shop premises in the Wellington Trades Hall, had got into- linancial diflieulties. Mr. Gillespie' asked whether, in view -of the Governinent 's sponsorship of consunier cooperatives in the Hutt Valley and other plaees, the Governmeht would -investigate the reasons for the failure of .this partieular cooperai've witli the. view, (irstly, of iutioducing iegislatio'n to pfotect shareholders in- stieh concerns, and,. secondly, to warn the ptiblie of possible pitfalls in sueli uudertakiiig's. k \ -Mr. V. Laugstone (Rriskiir, Labour)/ :n association with several Governrnent.

niembers, gave notiee to ask the Com-, missioner of Stale Eorests if. iie was' aware that terinite illfestsd tiinber, 'from Australia was not reeeiying adopiate supervision and cdntrol ,by uliieers of the State Forest Servb-e to destroy the termitds and prevent the -pread of the infestation.v • Mf. Laugstone asked wliat further * action the Minister proposed to prevent the inqiortation of infested timber from Australia. * Mr. G. M. Bowdeh. (Karpriy OppAsi-" timi ) gatsB .'notie6/t^4£Hkyfhe "Mihi^teir.iof .Wp r(k§ jni- . p'Fojected trip to' ^uie"1"* tjrifted S.t'ate^ in seareh of maehinery, • when competeui Government otlieials had beeu t abroad recentlv and the Commissioner of Works is now abroad on a similar mission. . ' .