HIGH PRICES IN JAPAN.
, ■»" • ! GOVERNMENT TAKES ACTION. i ' • MARKETS FOR PUBLIC. \ A. and N.Z. TOKIO. Dec. 8. Japanese labour is protesting against the high cost of living. A movement has been started to secure reorganisation of the Cabinet. Mr. Hara, the Prime Minister, called an official conference at which it was decided that a public market should be established in • each city of 50,000 inhabitants, and > loans should be advanced at low in- . terest to those who wish to build homes. It was also suggested that the tariffs on imported food should • be removed.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17339, 10 December 1919, Page 9
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