PREMIER’S CHARGE
Manufacturers’ Part In Price Rises (Received November 16, 6.30 p.m.) MELBOURNE, November 16. Attacking price rises generally the Premier of Victoria, Mr. Dunstan, said manufacturers were deliberately withholding stocks against a price rise. They were creating artificial shortages which appeared and disappeared automatically. For years manufacturers had adopted the same technique. He found it hard to understand why certain manufacturers and retailers should not be expected to carry at least a proportion of increased prices due to war conditions.
Mr. Dunstan's statement followed an announcement that the price of tea in Australia will be increased twopence a pound from Monday. Popular brands will now sell at from 3/6 to 3/8 a lb. — 1/3 above the pre-war price. The Price Commissioner, Professor D. B. Copland, said the latest rise was due wholly to increases in overseas costs.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 45, 17 November 1941, Page 7
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