"HUGE PROFITS.”

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVIII, Issue 18435, 15 June 1920, Page 9

"HUGE PROFITS.”

TO TIIE EDITOIt. Sir,—Your corespondent, A, Murphy, in this morning’s “Times” lias given a very clear, and, J believe, true caso of profiteering. Four]>eneo por pound, or £36 per ton, for potatoes, is an enormous profit wlion tlio market prico is quoted at £3 15s. but it is quite in keeping with other things. The greed of the retail shopkeeper is quito as bad as the wholesale “ shark.” What is this farce of a “ tribunal ” doing f° r us > should like to know?—l am, etc., JUSTICE.