FOOD RACKETEERS
THE “BLACK MARKET” INQUIRY IN ENGLAND LONDON, Sept. 17. Scotland Yard detectives, working with Ministry of Food enforcement officers, claim to have discovered evidence of a large-scale food racket in England. Part of the Government food supplies built up as a special reserve in case of invasion is believed to have been sold through the “ Black Market,” the name given to an organisation trafficking in scarce foodstuffs, which are sold at three times their controlled price. Racketeers have been able to gain control of hundreds of tons of the country’s most valuable foodstuffs. The “ Black Market ” deals involved tens of thousands of pounds. Britain ordered 15,000,000 cases of canned Californian tomatoes as an emergency food and drink supply in the event of invasion.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24716, 19 September 1941, Page 5
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