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ANTI-PROFITEERING.

NEW SOUTH WALES BILL. -By Cable—Press Association—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (lteceivcd October Bth, 7.35 p.m.) SYDNEY, October 8. In the Assembly, the Attorney-Gene-ral, ' explaining the Profiteering Invention Bill, said it provided a new and indpnendent tribunal, a Profiteering Prevention Court, free from control. Referring to the Chamber o Commerce, he' said wealthy extremist and gilded Bolsheviks were goading the country into revolution. Jn spite of all added costs, merchants were making more profit than ever. Owing to the watering of stock and reconstruction, many firms were making hundreds anc thousands per cent, .on the actual capital employed. The rich wero Rrowm? richer, and t'he poor _ poorer. The Uu cave wide powers against cornering and He mentioned thai amongst necessary services included :t tlie measure was the burial of the dead, This had been added because he was m formed undertakers were making ex travagant charges

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Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16961, 9 October 1920, Page 9

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ANTI-PROFITEERING. Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16961, 9 October 1920, Page 9

ANTI-PROFITEERING. Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16961, 9 October 1920, Page 9

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