PRICE INSPECTORS
"UNBRITISH METHODS"
"Will the Minister immediately issue instructions that Price Tribunal inspectors must not attempt to obtain information by un-British methods?" asked Mr. F. Findlay (National, Hamilton) in a notice of question to the Minister of Supply and Munitions in the House of Representatives yesterday. Mr. Findlay said that in a recent newspaper report it was stated that a stranger entered a Waikato shop and purchased a pair of boots but when it came to payment he declared he had no coupons. The stranger suggested that the shopkeeper might "stretch a point" and let him have the footwear without coupons. The shopkeeper refused and also rejected an offer of a substantially higher price. Then the stranger introduced himself as a Price Tribunal inspector. :
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 35, 10 August 1944, Page 3
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125PRICE INSPECTORS Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 35, 10 August 1944, Page 3
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