FIXATION OF PRICES
PLAN HELD UNWORKABLE Reaffirmation of its previously expressed opinion that the Government's price fixation scheme was entirely unworkable was expressed at a meeting of the council of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce yesterday. In a resolution on the subject the council stated that it had considered the information required by the Price Tribunal from traders seeking to increase prices, and considered that the only practical method of dealing with the problem was to allow prices to be fixed on a basis of replacement costs, as approved by the Courts during the Great War.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23482, 20 October 1939, Page 8
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96FIXATION OF PRICES New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23482, 20 October 1939, Page 8
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