RETAIL PRICE OF EGGS

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23394, 30 July 1941, Page 4

RETAIL PRICE OF EGGS

* INSTANCE OF “GROSS EXPLOITATION ” (P.A.) WELLINGTON. July 29. The Price Tribunal to-day made further comment concerning the price order limiting the maximum margins of profit which may be made by retail resellers of eggs to 3Jd a dozen, and then only when the net co3t of eggs into a retailer’s store is 2s 4Jd a dozen or more. . The tribunal cited an instance which had just come to its notice, illustrating very clearly why the issue of the order had bden so very necessary. It had been found in the case of a dairy that a margin of profit of Is id was levied on a sale made on July 24, instead of 3d’a dozen in terms of the order, an excess charge of 9Jd. From many complaints it had received in the past, the. tribunal was well aware that some dairi r had been charging very high prices for eggs. This opportunity was taken, the tribunal stated, of emphasising that the price order related to all retailers of eggs. Dairies were just as much bound by the order as were grocers and storekeepers. Grocers were loyally abiding by the terms of the order by keeping their egg prices within the limits named. The tribunal stated that in the instance of gross exploitation referred to above, it was decided to issue a formal warning, and at the same time to make public this intimation, so that all traders concerned could be guided accordingly. - •