SUPPRESSION OF PROFITEERING.
WOMEN’S LEAGUE FORMED AT CHRISTCHURCH. (By Telegraph —Press Association.) GHRISTCHURCH,, Tuesday. At to-day’s meeting of xvomen re the high cost of living, Miss Henderson, .president of the Christchurch branch 'of Ithe. National Council of Women, said the Government could, but did not cqntrol prices. She had noticed that thfc Government Statistic-, ian had stated that clothing, had adx’Hiieed only in proportion x\ith foodstuffs, but "she considered 'ho did not knoxv’what he xvas talking about. The cost, of New Zealand xvoollcn . goods xvas enormous, and this xvas the time when they were most wanted, .as there must be thousands of people in the country whose vitality had been lowered by influenza. There xvas a gem oral opinion among women that they xvore being exploited. Nor -did the Board of Trade inspire confidence. The meeting decided that Christchurch xvomen' should form a League for the suppression of profiteering.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 46, Issue 14144, 16 June 1920, Page 5
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