N.S.W. Copies N.Z. Price Fixing
SYDNEY. February 19,
The New South Wales Cabinet is drafting legislation for the creation of a price-fixing tribunal to control excessive prices of commodities, says the Sydney “Sun.” This is to be based upon the Auditor-General’s report on his inquiry into price-fixing machinery in New Zealand.
The article then takes up the case for the removal of the embargo on New Zeaalnd potatoes, stating that if this-jis not done Tasmanian potatoes are likely to go to £4O a ton in the winter.
It Is added that Sydney and Melbourne merchants have arranged for considerable purchases of New Zealand potatoes, subject to the suspension of the ban on their importation to Australia.
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Northern Advocate, 20 February 1939, Page 3
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