FOOD SPECULATORS.
BRITISH PEOPLE AROUSED. LONDON, Mar 2P. There is <a growing agitation against undue profits in food. The public is demanding the stoppage of all immoral food speculation, which leads not only to inflated prices, but actual waste of the food held up in expectation of exorbitant profits. The prices of all foodstuffs are still increasing, and consumers' leagues are being formed for the protection of the public. The "Evening News" says that dealers have made fortunes over the telephone, selling and re-.nelling parcels of chilled meat, which has changed hands only on paper, but at each transaction has increased in price. It gives as an instance one cargo of Argentine chilled beet, which was inflated by two shillings a stone in seven days. Drastic Government action Lβ demanded before it is too late.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 136, 8 June 1917, Page 6
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