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PRICES CUT HARD

GOODS LARGE FOOD SUPPLIES ABOLITION OF RATIONING (N.Z.P. A.—Router—Copyright.) (11.45 a.m.) MOSCOW, Dec. 16. With all the stores full of goods at new low figures collective farmers were forced to drop their prices also and goods in collective farm markets were priced in the new money at drastically cut rates. Moscow radio, recording that free trade at fixed State prices began today throughout the Soviet Union, said in connection with the abolition of rationing that the Government had instructed the Ministry of Trade to open 12,000 new shows in the last half of 1947.

Up to yesterday 12,094 trading enterprises, including over 6000 bakeries, were opened or were ready to open. The Government had allocated the necessary stodks and in the last few days the retail network throughout the country had received enormous quantities of goods.

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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22513, 17 December 1947, Page 7

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PRICES CUT HARD Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22513, 17 December 1947, Page 7

PRICES CUT HARD Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22513, 17 December 1947, Page 7

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