PRICE-RAISING RINGS IN SHIPBUILDING TRADE TO BE INVESTIGATED.
By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. "Sydney Sun” Cable. LONDON, June 20. The Shipbuilding Committee on June 19 published a report severely criticising the price-raising rings which charge 100 to 200 per cent above prewar prices for lead paint, uphertsterv, ropes, electrical cables, castings and sanitAry outfits, while selling to foreigners cheaper than to British shipbuilders.
The Board of Trade has promised an investigation with a view to relief, and adds that greater elasticity of organisation and the loyal observance of the forty-seven-hour week will enable the greater portiov; of ship repairing now going on on the Continent to be Retained £n Britain,
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17879, 22 June 1926, Page 6
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