SMUGGLING OF FOODSTUFFS
LUCRATIVE TRADE IN N.S.W.
(Rec. 11 p.m.) SYDNEY. September 10. Black market operators are making high nrofits smuggling food across the State borders Into New South Wales, where prices of certain essential foodstuffs are frozen at levels below those pertaining in other States. It is estimated that speculators are making £lOOO on a trailer load of 200 boxes of Victorian butter and £3OO on a load of potatoes—2oo bags. Pumpkins bought in Brisbane for £3O a ton have been sold in Sydney tor £156 a ton and Japanese onions, costing £4B a ton. fetched £2OO a ton when transferred into New Zealand bags. Smugglers from Victoria face maximum fines of £6OO and six months’ gaol but the policing of the price regulations is proving difficult and only a few minor operators have been
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26523, 11 September 1951, Page 7
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