CEMENT ENQUTRY.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 October 1921, Page 1

CEMENT ENQUTRY.

Till'. < Hi 1 > K It OK I’lt l-’.KKII I'iNOK. I nv tki.kuiiai-u -run riiKsn association! W I’d/US' '.TON. October 1 I. A vvnrinnl tins hoon issued appoinlj 111 , i Commission under the t oinniissioiis of Kil.piil'V Act. IDOS. promised 1 1 \- t li<* (iovorumoiit to inl«» mid report upon the aIU-ti-il ions made , event lv ill the llollse ol Iteprcseutu,ives I.V Mr Musics. Ml’. (Strutlord) reintinti; to the production, distribution. i ill port n t ion mid pliers of cement dnrino certain ol the | emits of contiol exercised hy 'he Hoard of Trade. The warrant was si-turd this moraine hv the t tovenioi -(Jelteral. As 'previously stated the Commission is to lie under .1 listin' Sim. Tlte scope of tin- Commission "ns Hindi- available this at tel noon hy the Al inister of Industries and Commerce. It is us follows : - (1) Whether the Hoard of Trade in I>f loaQ^Ju-aiuidanniiitt^

maximum retail price o-i cement ol New Zealand manufacture of. £0 Bis (id per ton, ex-store Wellington, was guil- - of any imprompriety or of a grievous error of judgment. (2) \vhether the companies manufacturing cenieiit in N,-u Zealand ih r. ing the periol ol acute sict tape • - ,-enu'iit from the ISth. ot .fan: ary, hk.’il and thereafter took advantaig- ol L' * - excess of the demand over tin- sup >!v to -xto't onreasonahly high prices from the public. 05) Whether the agreement d-t - 1 At.h. May. 1021. set o“t in the ~-in-d !" hereto, const it ul ed the ' oflcii: c aevimi the Comnn'i'i-id 'iii"t» \et. Ibid, o" auv other Act. or was ill any way crint imil or illegal

Whether the pri'-e for cement of New Zealand manufacture was directly oi indirectly determined. ,a,ml ioiled. „r mllocncd by the parties i,, 1 hi' agreement in such a manner as to make H'o price imroasonalily high. (A) Whether tin, said agreement has in anv mannei- opei ated d t l imelitally to public interest. (0) Whether the Board cl Ir:'! ' la-ing aware ot such agreetnent. was lacking in any duty in taking no action w ith respect to sick agreement. The date upon which the Commission is to sit will In' decided 11 1 Air Justice Sim.