FOOD PRICES
THE BRITISH INQUIRY
REPORT NEXT .WEEK,
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(AUSTRALIAX-NEW ZEAMND CABtB ASSOOIATKHU, ■ ~ LONDON, Ist May. The "Daily Express" understands'that the report of the Food Prices Commission will' be isSUed oii Thursday. It says that the report recommends, in addition to the food Counbil proposal^ that the operations o£ international trusts in wheat and meat should be• delegated to the economic" section of the League of Nations. " . . ■
An earlier forecast of the report Mentioned the appointment of a National Food Council, to work in conjunotiori with the Board'of Trade: "It will .be clear, 1' it was ■ stated, "that this machinery has been devised to deal with every kind of trafcting in foodstuffs. Shopkeepers, producers, importers, consumers, the local authorities, and the Government Department will be represented. It is proposed to give the council power to examine traders' books and accounts, issue iicenses to trado in certain trades, warn profiteers, and obtain, if necessary, shnreholdiiiir infhiehcfe in the South American chilled meat iiri^ porting trade." . ■ \
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 101, 2 May 1925, Page 7
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167FOOD PRICES Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 101, 2 May 1925, Page 7
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