HIGH COST OF LIVING
PROFITEERING IN FRANCE. DICTATOR APPOINTED. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received December 20, 9.40 p.m.) LONDON, December 20. The “Morning Post” correspondent in Paris states that consequent upon the increasing outcry against the high cost of living the Goveniroent has decided to create a special body under jVI. Rimibert, director of supplies at the War Office, who is essentially a man of action, and who is hailed as a dictator charged with the suppression of profiteering. M. Rinibert declares! “I shall seek to restrict the private advantages, often excessive, of certain producers and dealers I shall begin with, bread and when wheat prices are stabilised [ shall investigate other necessaries. Before trying to reduce price® I propose ending their continued rise. The speculation in flour has become frenzied.”
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11708, 21 December 1923, Page 5
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