MUCH GRAIN REPORTED ON BLACK MARKET
- Received Sunday, 7 p.m. CAXBERRA, Feb. 8. The Price Commissioner, Mr. McCarthy, stated that there was a .huge blaek market in grain. hlore than 500,000 bushels of grain and sorghum had changed hands last year. The legal value of this grain was £125,000 but, he was unable to say what it brought on tlie black market. The grain had been brought from drought stricken Queensland to be sokl 011 the black market in other States. -Special priees inspectors had begun a drive to trace the black marketing of grain at all stages.
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Chronicle (Levin), 10 February 1947, Page 5
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