WAR PROFITEERING
MINISTER'S CHARGE
BOOTS FOR AUSTRALIAN
FORGES
{Received November 29, 2.15 p.m.)
CANBERRA, This Day.
Ten bpotrtiakifig firms were named by the Acting Minister of Supply, Sir iVederick Stewart, in the House of
Kepf esehtatives, when he alleged "a
deliberate attempt at war profiteering" /had been made in the prices .quoted for Army boots. Sir Frederick- Stewart announced that he intended to exercise special powers under, the National Security. Kegulations to obtain 100,000 pairs of boots at a price to be determined by arbitration.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 130, 29 November 1939, Page 10
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85WAR PROFITEERING Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 130, 29 November 1939, Page 10
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