COUPON SYSTEM
PROTEST OF SYDNEY TRADERS (Rec.’ February 15, 9.50 p.m.) Sydney, February 15. A deputation of traders waited on Mr. J. R. Lee, Minister of Justice, and urged that the Government should abolish the coupon system of trading as unfair to the third’party, and a taxon trade without anv compensating service to the public, the coupon companies alone being the gainers. It was stated that many traders were being compelled to give coupons to their customers under pain of transference of custom to other traders. Manv other strong arguments were presented against the system. The Minister promised’ an early and thorough investigation, and added that the Government would not allow anything which unduly increased the price of living.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 118, 16 February 1928, Page 9
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119COUPON SYSTEM Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 118, 16 February 1928, Page 9
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