PRINCES DURING STRIKE.
PREVENTING PROFITEERING : ' v-, v' ' , ;; ' "T*~ . I 30ARD OF TRADE WARNING, j , -NQ" ! UNAUTHORISED INCREASES. • POSSIBILITY OF RATIONING. far telikeath.— association.] • " WELLINGTON, Thursday. ' 'pie Board of Trade has" instructed the anti-profiteering tribunals in the main . centres to take steps to inform traders that during the strike the board will consider any increase in prices over those ruling on April 26, without the consent of the board or a tribunal, as an infringement of the Board of Trade Act. Where prices are raised without the consent of the board prosecutions will follow. * The board recognises that during the crisis extra charges for transport- may be made, and that these must be borne by the j consumer. The board •will in such, cases; consent to increases commensurate with file increase in the cost*oi transport. j A suggestion is also made by the board that a shortage <$£ goods may necessitate eqme form of rationing.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17458, 30 April 1920, Page 6
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153PRINCES DURING STRIKE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17458, 30 April 1920, Page 6
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