“BLACK MARKETS”
PENALTIES OUTLINED “PEST MUST BE SCOURGED FROM COMMUNITY” HOME SECRETARY'S UKASE (Reed. 7.15 p.m.) London, March 11 ‘These pests must be scourged from the community,” declared Mr, Herbert Morrison, Home Secretary, broadcasting regarding the new penalties for black marketeers. “They are now liable to fourteen years’ imprisonment and a tine equal to thrice the value of the goods involved, plus a sum which the Court decides was the profit derived from the transaction. That is more than the biggest penalty for' sabotage but not more than the situation requires.” Mr. Morrison attacked buyers in the "black market" as a shameful blot upon the splendid wartime spirit of the great majority. Even small buyers showed a spirit identical with that of the big buyers who were buying Jo make a profit from the nation need in this hour of peril.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 61, 13 March 1942, Page 5
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