COST OF LIVING
- - RETAILERS’ CLAIMS. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) SYDNEY, August 12. Giving evidence at the Board of trade enquiry into the cost of living the representative of the Employers’ Federation stated that prices of drapery, Manchester goods, boots, and groceries had fallen by 15 to 20 per cent during the past year. The Retailers’ Association is leading a crusade for sweeping away all the Govern-ment-imposed trade restrictions. They claim that the restrictions are crippling markets, out of which the bottom has already dropped. They state that, as a result of .interference, palf \the retail traders of Australia are to-day selling goods at below cost price.
BUTTER PRICES RAISED. Recd. 10.30 a.m. LONDON, Aug. 12. The Government has raisbd the price of butter, 5/- all round, making first grade New Zealand 262/- and Australian 246/-. / ' \
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Greymouth Evening Star, 13 August 1921, Page 5
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