COST Or LIVING.
CAMPAIGN IN BRITAIN.
LONDON, October 18. . ’E A. M Curdy, M.P., addressing the hood Conlerence, said the Government had been strenuously attacking ugh prices during the tew weeks since the Profiteering Act was passed. .Sixteen hundred local tribunals were established, and IdoO prosecutions brought forward, resulting ln 1320 convictions and tines amounting to £7060. Several important retail organisations, including grocers ami drapers, were voluntarily developing schemes whereby StaLST redU °' :<l th * Extern-
PRICES STILL RISING
LONDON, October IS
The general level of rot-ail food prices in Britain on October 1 was o per cent above September 1.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12775, 20 October 1919, Page 3
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