TRADE PIRATES.
“There are a number of people coming here who are simply business pirates,” declared Mr Napier at the Auckland Harbour Board meeting on Tuesday afternoon, duiing a discussion on tenders. “ They have no business premises, but simply rent offices and act for people abroad. It would be unwise of the Board to encourage them. We should encourage our city merchants, who have estab lished businesses, and who trade through us a’nd pay rents, and not allow people to come in and cry out for a share of the Board’s business when they have no stake atiUllin the country. They are nothing else but trade pirates from America and elsewhere, and their number is increasing. A great fraud was perpetrated on the Railway Department and the Public Works Department once through brands of certain articles not being specified in the tenders.” “ I remember it,” remarked the Hon. E. Mitchelson. “I was a Minister of the Crown at tue time.” Mr J. Kneeu said some two years ago a certain brand of oil was dejected on board one of Board’s vessels as useless. The same oil was taken back on board in another drum, and was pronounced to be the best yet received.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 403, 27 June 1908, Page 2
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