Price Control
Sir,—Like “Sheepfarmer,” I find no constructive criticism in your editorial; only a cover-up for butchers and fishmongers, who, if they recognise their obligations to the consumer, have nothing to fear from price control. In Christchurch in nine years the retailers’ mark-up on wholesale price has gone from 32 per cent, to 98 per cent—racketeers out for all they can get. Yet your paper opposes price control. Why? A comparison of retail and market prices for fish shows control is overdue. One example is whitebait At the start of the season whitebait was selling in the city for up to 3s a quarter pound while the West Coast catchers were getting 5s a pound. The fishmongers’ best excuse is the weather, and how they play on itf Price control affects only ceiling prices and protects the public from these get-rich-quick greedy butchers, etc. Their margins are unrealistic; over all, the price to the cohsumers is far too high. Now the butcher can stew in his own juice.—Yours, etc., N.F.G. November 15, 1959.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29057, 20 November 1959, Page 3
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173Price Control Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29057, 20 November 1959, Page 3
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