, 1912-02-17

class of people occupied around the factories.
that these articles b. put ON the list again.
especially condense milk. In former times
there were more labourers around the mus
GOV .do works now you fluid besides the real
lahourers another class of labourers, as book.
keepers, sugar boilers, engineers ETC., WHY
should these people not be able to buy a tin
OF condensed milk
He would take the opportunity to ask the
government, IT muscovadO sugar, which wns.
a produce OF the island, could not be sold as.
hitherto in the Towns by the poor and many
of them crippled people; this selling for a
cent meant q good deal for this class, that,
else would have to apply for help as paupersr
and thus increase the expenses on the Bud
get.
3rd Member for Frederiksted Country
District (BI0okoooOd) could not see, how the.
things sold in the country shops could DAM
age the merchants in T )wn, as it is the.
merchants that supply the country shops.
1t would be q great convenience for
the managers, overseers and so on to have au.
easy access to- these articles, as we'll rs the,
labourers.
Fad Member for Frederiksted Town
(Golden) said it was useless to- go over whit
had been said in the Committee. The Conn
mittee's object was not to consider personal
interests. 70 incre Use the things which
hucksters might sell would only be to in
crease the number of hucksters. And anoth-
er thing, by allowing too many of these artl-
cles to be sold by hucksters a way was given
the merchants to. evade the law by establish
ing a lot of shops in the country aud depress-
ing the merchants, in Town. Now you scarce
ly see people in the shops on market days.
on, account of the country shops, and it.
woHld become worse, if no restriction was
1na4A with ra rord RI tho bI1nEStarS' collipn Of
too many different articles. He would ask
Government, whether it WAS. possible to
make a difference between q huckster of the.
Town and o huckster of the Country.
sd Member for Christian4ted Country
District (LseU4) said, that when the Ordi-
mlnce of Trade in it's time was decide upon
it was understood, that the establishing of
shops in the Country was to keep the labour-
ers from town; it was for the labourers' own
beuett. When q factory is established, it.
outdoes the Town; you mly consider it an es-
tate. The sooner the labourer learns to use:
condensed milk. the better, if it is to facili-
tate the labourer, he would let them have easy
access. to as many articles as possible. He,
agreed with the minority.
9Th Crown Member (S1gelcke) remarked.
that hucksters' business ought to be for
hucksters, which meant, that they could not,
sell everything. The Hon. 3rd Member for
Frederiksted Country district (Blackwood(
could not see how it could damage the mer-
chants in Town; he. the speaker, would an
swer, because the most merchants in reality
were retailers.
LIST Member for Frederiksted Town (CoMt-.
ter( could not understand, how a merchant
in Town, that sells retail should suffer any
damage from the bucksters. Surely the
merchant would look out for his profit, when
he sold wares to hucksters, that these last
might not sell the articles at a lower price,.
than he, the merchant, held them in. To-
the hon 2nd Member for Frederiksted Town
(Golden) it was enough to- say, that he OBJ
iects TO increase the list, but if you add g.
more items, why should that make the trade
depressed in town
3rd Member for Frederiksted Country
District (Bzoc&ooood( and End Member for
Frederiksted Town (GOIden) made a few
remarks to each other.
The Chairman said, that he would now
ask the hon. Member fot an explanation of
what he really recommends, what the real
intention of the Minority's proposal was.
The Minority, in its report, refers to the
minority's report of 9 October 1911 which