CIGARETTE SALES
Price Cutting Opposed (N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, Feb. 4. The Master Grocers’ Federation was opposed to the cutting of cigarette and tobacco prices, the national secretary (Mr R. M. Barker), said today. He was referring to the Christchurch report of tobacco supplies being refused to a discount grocery chain selling them under normal prices. For more than 25 years there had been a national policy of selling cigarettes and tobacco at the maximum prices authorised by the Price Division, and there appeared to be no good reason why this policy should be changed, he said. In recent years the profit on tobacco and cigarette sales by small mixed businesses “had become essential to their survival."
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32214, 5 February 1970, Page 24
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