THE BLUNDERBUSS OF TRADE
(To the Editor.) Sir,—Sir.. Stronaeh Paterson, ivho was the spokesman for the deputation that waited on Ministers yesterday to urge the repeal of four vicious Acts, rightly described them as the blunderbuss of trade. Tho reply of the Prime Minister to the deputation is very interesting* Ho is reported to have said that the tendency today in business was toward combination, and the Government had to be in a position to protect the general public froih the operations of trusts or combines.
Those were noble sentiments, but what I would like to know is why the Wheat Marketing Board should be granted the exclusive right or monopoly of importing wheat at one price, selling it at another and higher price, and giving the difference—certainly not to charity. By this action of the Government does not the Wheat Marketing-.Board, Ltd., become a monopoly? Is this the way the Government protects the public, or is it a.subtle method of vote-purchasing?~l am, etc.,CACKLE.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 92, 15 October 1932, Page 12
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164THE BLUNDERBUSS OF TRADE Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 92, 15 October 1932, Page 12
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