SECRET COMMISSIONS

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43066, 9 March 1907, Page 1

SECRET COMMISSIONS

The pronouncements recently- made ®& k! -' - - connection with j the U . r payments of .secret . ooiii|lji®Bioiis] aa. pf jfche faring! - / a have .diretcted attention - * Cither ■came- into .force in Great Britain I first ; dlay of the present year. I ." Considerable 1 interest mil /be npianiI feSted .jp&i to/ the, result of, its operar I question- state that/the practice of I Wdl receiving secret commisI sums ihas spread! oyer the- whole pom* I / /metjdflil World; Agents amdr employees I , hiaye m pnorI „. ; mous tolls. upon those, who desire to I /.. do ihuainess- with thiedr. and I tolL;lUis : takeji many forms/ A I'iit jmoney is -the •* poiost

frequent and most=objectionable form, ■' in many-- Caaleß*<bedng[ ■ based on ajpar- „ denitiajge' of-the business done ' The kindly loan, the prteent of piatei, the ctahe of ohampagtno f ;and, the dinner are .Jonas. ~The" , Act iaims ■: ‘blow, 'at/aU ; th<M,e; •.who •cjesire . * tio unfair •WivttUtage in fbusik The=>nrinoipad ni ci'auise provides ./• 'or- employee “vote* rtiptly actobpts or r pbtains, or agrejes to .accept or afteimpts tlb obtain, ffflonj. §Buny pesriki’Tif-for- ‘Mmfeteilf or fori any P^th^pe«^ or.consideration ■as «n ■ inducement orrewardf for doing or do or for having jaf ter / the parsing of this Act -done on forf bomp <to do any act ini relation ''tio his principal's affairs or; business, or for ■&-showing or forbearing to : show- favour ipxr .dSEtfavOur to any-person in relation : .’to has affairs or busines, he | shall .. be guilty of a rmsdemeamour.” : , The/penalty .fc p. ,sucihi /m .Qffenoe \ may j'.i.ibe, imprisonment- for two* years ; or a; finet of £SOO. ? The .game., punishments U await those who, as principals or agents for principals, attempt to bribe I a|i employee ini anv manner. The Aict I'/is not aimed at “Christmas boxes?’ or I flit to waiters, and servants. . Ithfeee ar«) acts of more, or lees ooeri I befflevolenioe well known, to the endI plovers. < and thiev can hardly be- held I to 'be bribes designed to. secure, unI known to the employer, Special aid vanI tagesfor the donor or disadvantages I for others. Business mem hope, >howI eye**, .that the .pew law will do someI.thing to/suipproas practices* that -are I pot creditable to the commercial I world.