PRICES OF FOODSTUFFS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 173, 27 August 1914, Page 4

PRICES OF FOODSTUFFS.

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[From our own Parliamei#ary Reporter 3 WELLINGTON, August 26, Mr T. H. Davey (Christchurch East) asked if the Government intended to set up a Commission to enquire into the priees of foodstuffs. He had it from warehousemen and many others that priees were being raised without warrant. Sir Joseph Ward said he noticed in. the Press that the Prime Minister expected to be able to do something in a few days. During his travels in the south numbers* of people had approached him to urge that it should be done at once. (Hear, hear). There were the questions of meat, flour, sugar, tea, and and if a Commission, could be set up at once it would give general satisfaction. Mr Massey said it was intended to set up a Commission, and yesterday he had communicated with half a dozen gentlemen in different parts of New Zealand, asking, them to become members of the Commission. Up to the present he had only received replies from twoj but in all probability he would have replies from the o A her four in another day. He hoped to be able to make a statement in the House before the end of the week that the Com* mission Had been set up.