A PERMANENT BOARD.
! The Cost of Living Commission makes one suggestion which may be worthy of consideration. It recommends that a pernwiicnt Board of Industrial and Social Investigation be set up, with 'full' powers to call for persons and papers. Such a Board* could, we , think, bo made of considerable value to the Dominion. It might investij gate trade disputes, the various forms of'combine which present themselves, the developments of trade in different countries, the effects of tariff adjustments, and so on. It might, indeed, assume something of the form of the British Board of Trade. ■' The Government will, no doubt, give consideration to this recommendation, which appears to be eminently practical, though some may regard the expense which would be entailed as wnwar- | ■ranted at the present juncture;- j
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10710, 2 September 1912, Page 4
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130A PERMANENT BOARD. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10710, 2 September 1912, Page 4
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