FIXATION OF PRICES.
REPORTED WELLINGTON MOVE. PROTEST BY RAILWAY OFFICERS. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The cost of living, insofar as. price fixation is concerned, was consmeied at a special meeting of railway oncers. It was alleged that a concerted movement was afoot m one particulai trade ostensibly for the purpose of fixing wholesale and retail prices. A leso - tion was carried unanimously as tolS fhat this meeting of railway officers views with alarm the action, of merchants and grocers combining toi the purpose of fixing the puces of foodstuffs, which action must mentably recoil to the grave disadvantage of the consumer. The. meeting also regards such action, in view of the sc lions financial position of the count y. as being taken at a time when the public is. quite unable to slightest increase m the cost ol In mg.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 268, 26 August 1930, Page 4
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