TRADE RESTRICTION

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20046, 19 September 1939, Page 2

TRADE RESTRICTION

EFPECT OF THE WAR WAIRARAPA OPINION The restricted retail trading in Masterton consequent on the outbreak of war was discussed at the annual meeting of the Wairarapa Interhouse Association. Delegates said they were concerned with the need for maintaining business at a normal level, and a motion was passed to approach the Mayor, Mr, T. Jordan, and the chairman of the county council, Mr. R. Gordon Lee, to make an appeal to the public toward that end.

Tlie activities of certain organisations which were already preparing for war conditions hardly likely to occur in New Zealand was also discussed. It was decided to ask the Mayor and the county chairman to try if possible to curtail these activities which, it was slated, were only upsetting the mental balance of the people, and to suggest that individual group efforts concerning war conditions should cease till a national scheme of voluntary aid could be organised under proper civic direction and in. keeping with the realities of the war situation in the Dominion.

One of the major reasons for planning to continue 'the association’s activities on a full scale this year was to help to take people’s thoughts off the war. Sporting rivalry would be a real tonic, it was thought, and every effort would have to be made to keep the public in a normal state of mind.