PRICE-FIXING TRIBUNAL
NEW SOUTH WALES PLAN DOMINION POTATO BAN (Reed. Feb. 20, 9 a.m.) SYDNEY, Feb. 19. According to the Sydney Sunday Sun, the New South Wales Cabinet is drafting legislation for the creation of a price-fixing tribunal which will control excessive prices of commodities. The plan is based upon the Auditor-General’s report of his inquiry into the price-fixing machinery of New Zealand. The article then takes up the case for the removal of the embargo on New Zealand potatoes, declaring: "II this is not done, Tasmanian potatoes are likely to go to £4O a ton during the winter.”
It is added that Sydney and Melbourne merchants have arranged to make considerable purchases of New Zealand potatoes, subject to the suspension of the ban on New Zealand potatoes.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19868, 20 February 1939, Page 5
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