OPEN BLACK MARKET
ORGANISED IN BRISBANE HIGH PRICES FOR BUTTER Rec. 9 p.m. BRISBANE, May 25. The black market has come out into the open in Brisbane, where butter and tea can be bought openly without coupons. Standard black market prices are £7 for a 541 b box of butter and 5s a pound for tea. Legitimate prices are £4 3s lOd per box of butter and 2s 4Jid per pound for tea. The operators, who have their own salesmen, supply suburban grocers with black market goods according to a highly-organised system. Many storekeepers have admitted that rival salesmen call on them several times each month to offer couponless butter and tea.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26470, 26 May 1947, Page 5
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