PROFITEERING ACT

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 28 August 1919, Page 7

PROFITEERING ACT

METHOD OF OPERATING

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT (Received Aug. 28, 1.55 p.m.) LONDON, Aug. 27. Dr McCurdy has begun the administration of the Profiteering Act. He has secured expert representatives of •employers and workmen to enquire into producing costs in several industries, including boots, clothes, underwear, household utensils, and necessaries." His object is not to fix prices •or to institute prosecutions, but to publish facts for public information. 'The Ministry is also creating temporary machinery to investigate the methods of profits of any business pending legislation for permanemt machinery.