LOCAL COMMERCE

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXII, Issue 20, 18 February 1927, Page 5

LOCAL COMMERCE

MONTHLY MEETING. GENERAL BUSINESS. The usual monthly meeting of the Waipukurau. Chamber of Commerce was held in Wood’s Tea Rooms last evening. The president, Mr J. E. Hall, presided over a fair attendance of members. Correspondence received and read was as — From the Railway Department, regarding the Chamber’s request to be allowed to beautify small section of railway reserve adjoining railway station, and stating that the Department was prepared to lease'land in question on a peppercorn rental, provided deed of lease was in" name of Waipukurau Borough Council. —It'.wais resolved that the Borough Council be requested to accept lease as drawn by Railway Department. The ’ President stated that already help had been promised in regard to the laying-out and planting of the piece of land. Mr J. W Harding, for one, had promised to help in every way he could. ’ The Railway Department advised that the passenger car which had been removed from the goods train leaving Opapa on Saturday afternoons for Waipukurau and returning train. from Waipukurau at 4.40, owing to fallingaway of traffic, would be replaced in time to suit traffic for winter games, if circumstances warranted.

. From the committee of the Waipukurau D.H. School, asking -.that the Chamber try to arrange with the retailers to close their shops on the occasion of the school excursion to Napier on Friday next, February 25th. —- It. was decided that the matter be left to the executive to deal with....

The Kaipara Chamber of Commerce wrote asking for - support to request sent to Minister of Lands for aMirect subsidy on manures, this being considered necessary in view--of desirability of increasing primary production. Mr Warren brought up the matter of the request to the Government to impose a- heavy duty on imported wheat and flour. The tendency was to make the price of bread heavy to the working man, to suit the Southern growers and millers. -• Mr Louric also spoke -on the same subject. He had noticed- that the Southern millers and growers were appealing to the Government to raise the tax considerably- on imported.’ wheat, and he thought that that was decidedly wrong. To penalise so large a portion of the public at the request of a small minority was absolutely against all precepts of fairness.

After further discussion Mr Lourie moved: “That this Chamber views with alarm the attempt being made by the growers, millers, and distributors of wheat to impose a further duty ore the importation of Australian wheat, the effect of which would be to increase the cost of the loaf to the worker ’ ’

This was unanimously carried, and also-a further proposal that the motion be forwarded to the Minister of Agriculture and to all Chambers of Commerce, for their support. The President reported that'the matter of securing the removal of exchange on cheques between Takapau, Waipukurau, and Waipawa had been furthered by a letter to the General Manager of the Bank of-New Zealand..