PURGE DEMANDED
SHOPKEEPERS AND BLACK MARKET SYDNEY, February 4. An impromptu meeting of nearly 100 angry shopkeepers at the city markets to-day demanded a purge by the New South Wales Fruit Shopkeepers’ Association to rid their ranks of black marketeers. The men argued heatedly for more than an hour and traffic into the growers’ market was interrupted. Charges of black marketing and racketeering were made. At times the shouting almost drowned the noise of the heavy market, traffic. The instigator of the move, a Randwick greengrocer, asked that the secretary of the association should not defend law-breaking shopkeepers. He said he was disturbed by reports of dishonesty in the trade. Things had reached such a stage that the public’s mind was&eing poisoned against the retailer. The meeting broke up when police came to clear the traffic.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 5 February 1947, Page 8
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