PROFITEERING ACT

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 25 August 1919, Page 7

PROFITEERING ACT

METHOD OF ADMINISTRATION..

BY CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYEIGHT (Received Aug. 20, 12.40 p.m ) LONDON, Aug. 24. The Board of Trade announces that the Profiteering Act will be administered by, firstly, a Central Committee, representing the Government, chambers of commerce, employers, trades .unions and co-operative societies, which will investigate the costs and profits of manufactures and wholesale merchants; secondly, by local committees appointed by the municipal councils, to investigate specific complaints iigains+. retailers; thirdly, by an appeal tribunal) for each county appointed by the Board of Trade ip hear appeals from local committees' decisions"