BRITISH PARLIAMENT
Australian Press Assn.-—United Service 4 TALKATIVE ( ?> MEMBER. LONDON, May 4. In tbe Commons. A. G. C. Gardiner, the oldest Commoner, who has not gnnde a speech in the Commons for i; quarter of a century, in moving the Second reading of the Bill dealing' with hire purchase, estimated fifty to eighty per cent of motor cars, se-only per cent of sewing machines, eighty per cent of gramophones, ten per cent jewellery and half of ihe furniture in Britain, was sold on the hire purchase system. Ihe Bill rein red goods of the hire trader from liability to seizure in Hie event of distraint, or bankruptcy of the hire
purefui.se r. Sir Alerriinaii strongly opposed the Bill. He said a genuine hire purchase system which had come to stay sorvd a useful purpose but tbe trader covered his risks in the price oi his goods. The Bill would paralyse tbs taw of distress, and provide an instrunuMit for fraudulent dealers to put goods out of reach of creditors.
The sitting was adjourned, owing to the absence of a quorum.
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 May 1928, Page 2
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