THE PEOPLE’S FOOD
ATTEMPT TO CONTROL PRICES. A. PERMANENT COUNCIL. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. ' ■ LONDON, June 9. It is understood that the announcement of the establishment of a food council on the lines suggested in the report of the food Commission may be expected shortly. The council' will not at the outset have statutory power, but it will act in an advisory capacity. It will watch food 'prices, and endeavour to control them by the use of publicity.—Ruter. ■ The Food Commission’s majority report Tecbihmended the establishment of a permanent Food Council" to maintain confaihiing supervision over the staple food trades. “We have in view,’’ the report said, “the formation of a body combining representatives,of the economic, financial, administrative, and consuming interests to act as a mediator between the producer, the trader, and the consumer, and reconciling for a common end interests which we do not regard as necessarily conflicting. ’ ’
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19503, 11 June 1925, Page 10
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