Commercial Morality.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 January 1922, Page 1

Commercial Morality.

ALMS OF INDUSTRIES AND COJ*MERCE DEPARTMENT. WELLINGTON,. Jan. 11 The fourth annual report of the Department of Industries and Commeiee was presented to tlie House oi Representatives to-day. Notwithstanding the end of the war, increasing demands continue to he made upon the services of the Department. The main function of the Department, says the report, is to assist in the development of industries and commerce along right lines, avoiding the evils that have attended industrial development in other countries. The Department, in its administration of the powers conferred by-j the Act, will endeavour to secure the co-operation of the business community, and will secure this co-operation by constant insistence upon the observance of appropriate standards of commercial morality. It will constantly keep lie-, fore the minds of the buisness cominu-*' nity the ideal that the reward the business community receives from the public should be appropriate to the services i it renders the public. In the enforce-j meat ol these standards, the Depait-j incut will seek to understand and make j allowance for the difficulties of particular problems. It will endeavour Jo sec both sides in every ease. It will endeavour to protect men in the furtherance of legitimate self-interest by reasonable and fair methods, and at the same time strive to keep the channels of competition frro and open to all, so that the man with the small capital may engage in business in competition .with powerful rivals, assured Hint he may operate his business in competition with those rivals free fiom harassment, and be given a lair oppoi-j trinity to work out bis business prob-. terns with such efficiency, industry, ami intelligence as lie may possess. I