"A MARE'S NEST"

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XVII, Issue 5883, 10 April 1920, Page 2

"A MARE'S NEST"

ALLEGED PROFITEERING. "GO TO THE BOARD AND GET FACTS.;' Au alleged case of profiteering in tweed prices, which has recently be<.fi going the rounds of the Press, was re--I'eired to the Board of Ti-a.de tii Wednesday by a Times representative. It .has hxvn repeatedly istajtcd vthai: a •yoijag n'jiiiiii.n Employed in a certain woollen mill purchased from the manager tweed at 7s 6d a yard. Upon making up the costuuv, however, she found she was aboir.t half a yard short of tlie material required ; and on req;u&4fiing more t«\Y>cd /from the mill manager, she was informed that a certain drapery firm had bought -the whole stock. Sine applied to the draper cont erned, and was charged for the same cloth 18s per yard. Tii? Times representative was informed that at the end of Last rear tin's statement was made to the Board of Trade by a correspondent who signed himself "Father of a Deceased Solidier.*' Although the bbard does not usually take (notice of aucl.iv mo us commiurcations, the facts were so specifically stated in this case that an inquiry was made. The [ board found that the mill named had noii delivered a yard •of tweed to the drapery firm named since 1910. The board considered that it is extraordinary that such a statement should ctontfaue to be made through the medium of the Press, whoa it has been publicly notified that all complaints of profiteering should be made either direct to the bbard itself or to the local tribunals recently set up in each of the four big centre*.

"'The public can rest assured.'' the reported wms iuormed, "that the ca*9 under consecration is a marc's nes:. But ip k?eps oroppiug up again and again, starting first iM one paper, then, in another, and so going the rounds. •'The man in the street," it •\vlis stated, "always asks what the board is doing; but,' why does he not go to tlie boaijd r<;id get the facts'?" " , '