RETAIL PRICE OF SUGAR
STATEMENT BY THE MINISTER,
RESENTMENT OF GROCERS.
By Telegraph.—Press Association.
Dunedin, Aug. 14.
Indignation was to-day - expressed .by grocers at the Hon. P. A. de la Perrelle’s statement that the wholesale price of sugar had not been increased and that until it was no increase should be made by retailers. The president of the masters grocers stated that when the increased duty was announced grocers passed it on the public, but the stocks were then low, there having been an excessive run in the last minute at the old prices. It the new duty proposal was defeated.in ihe House the public would expect an immediate price reduction. The usual practice was to increase the price with the duty increase, and the Minister’s statement issued nearly a fortnight after the imposition of- the duty was “most improper.” It was absurd'to suggest that grocers should make a refund. i /
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Taranaki Daily News, 15 August 1931, Page 11
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