PRICE-FIXING CONTROL
EFFECTIVE AUSTRALIAN SYSTEM RISE IN COSTS GREATER IN HEW ZEALAND CANBERRA, February 20. Information compiled by officials to demonstrate the effective working of war-time price-fixing control shows that the average price rise in Australia since the war began for group commodities in common use is reckoned at 9 per cent, and the wholesale price at 12 per cent. The comparable statistics for Now Zealand and Canada show an average retail price rise of 17 per cent. Officials claim that the Australian figures would have been much more favourable, but for the necessity to import some goods such as tea, which are affected by freight, insurance, and exchange.
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Evening Star, Issue 23816, 21 February 1941, Page 8
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109PRICE-FIXING CONTROL Evening Star, Issue 23816, 21 February 1941, Page 8
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