BRICE FIXATION
Effect In Australia CANBERRA. February 20. Information compiled by officials to demonstrate the effective working of the wartime priee-tixing control shows that tlie average price rise in Australia since the war began, for :t group of commodities in common use. is reckoned til 9 tier cent., and the wholesale price rise is 12 per ceyj. Uomparuble statistics for New Zealand and Canada show an average retail price rise of 17 per cent.. The officials claim that the Australian figures would have been niui'jj, more favourable but for Hie necessity to import some goods, such ns lea. which ."J'e nlTeeled by freight, insurance, and exchange. MONEY FOR FIGHTERS (British Official Wireless.) ( Received February 20, 7.5 p.m.) RUGBY. February 19. The people of Sind have sent the Minister of Aircraft Production. Lord Beaverbrook, a further contribution ot £5OOO toward the purchase of a Spitlire Io be called "Sind 17" The total now received from Sind exceeds £38.000. With its latest gift of £5OOO the Uganda war fund has now raised a total of £84.000 for the purchase of a Uganda squadron of lighters.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 126, 21 February 1941, Page 7
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183BRICE FIXATION Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 126, 21 February 1941, Page 7
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