AUSTRALIAN GROCERS
MEETING OF ASSOCIATION' (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian & K.Z. Cable Association.) "Sydney, March 5. At the annual conference of the retail grocers’ association the chairman s speech stated that although federal statistic figures indicated a decrease in the cost of living, wages and other expenses had not decreased. The purchasing power of public money was probably about par with that of 1924. Accountants’ investigations indicated that 19.49 per cent, of the turnover went to meet expenditure in the average Australian grocers’ shops. The association was con. tinuing a strenuous fight against what it termed the pernicious coupon system, ft advocated steps being taken along the lines adopted in England to render methylated spirits undrinkable by the addition of an ingredient which would not interfere, with the commercial uses of the snit it.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 7 March 1925, Page 3
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