NO INCREASES GRANTED

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 28 July 1942, Page 5

NO INCREASES GRANTED

WELLINGTON BOARDING HOUSE CHARGES Wellington, This Day. No increases in boarding-house charges in Wellington had been authorised by the Price Tribunal, stated an officer of the tribunal yesterday, and action had been taken in one case where a reduced service was being given for the same price. When it was pointed out that there was a tendency for the proprietors to increase prices or reduce the number of meals without altering the tariff in compensation, the officer replied that the public was expected to co-operate by reporting such cases to the tribunal.

M. Philip said the first feelings of despair after the fall of France had been changed to-day to a feeling of bitter resentment against Vichy. The feeling had been growing very strongly in the last eight or nine months and resistance had been spreading in Paris, in the north, in Alsace and in Brittany. The feeling in Paris was that the Vichy Government did not exist.

M. Philip said the French people had been enraged because the Germans had plundered all their fruit and wine and a great deal of their meat. At the same time there was a growing spirit of revolt against Vichy because freedom of speech, and even of thoqght, was being repressed. Vichy boasted of having authority, he said, but the real state of affairs was complete anarchy in everything. At present the whole atmosphere was very good for the resistance movement. The members of the movement regarded themselves as doing the same thing inside France as the element of fighting French who were fighting in battle were doing.— 8.0. W.