CONTROL OF HAWKERS
GOVERNMENT’S POWERS When the Waitemata Chamber of Commerce last evening considered a request from the Hikurangi Chamber of Commerce that the Government should take over the licensing of hawkers, Mr. S. E. Kennings declared that as far as possible the Government should be prevented from taking more powers. “We have got to the position now where a man is told what side of the street to walk on, what transport to use, and is subjected to endless regulations in his business. Even his home was invaded by Government inspectors.” The difficulty in defining what constituted a hawker was also mentioned. It was contended that people working on commissions selling lines of goods among householders were just as much hawking as the vendor of foodstuffs and rabbits. Mr. P. S. Gee remarked that as far as shopkeepers were concerned they would be glad to see some commercial travellers put under restraint or made to pay a licence fee. The Hikurangi Chamber is to be informed that Waitemata agrees to the i wisdom of controlling hawking, but that it should be done by local bodies.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 391, 27 June 1928, Page 1
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186CONTROL OF HAWKERS Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 391, 27 June 1928, Page 1
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