"PRICE OFFICE COSTS £60,000 A YEAR"
AUCKLAND, Nov. 12.
The cost of runnmg the office of the Price Control Division in Auckland, according to a former employee, was £60,000 a year, stated . the National Party's candidate for Ponsonby, Mr B. H. Kingston, last night. He was addfessing an open-air meeting, attended by about 150, from his "portable soap box" opposite the Leys Institute, Three Lamps, Ponsonby. Mr Kingston said that the overall cost of administering price control in the Auckland Province would not be less than £500,000 a year because every business, big and small, employed statf to do work associated with , price control. The abolition of the controls would reduce thb cost of living and make ■available for more pjoductive work all those people now engaged "in the useiess task of putting figures on sehedules and placing them in pigeonholes."
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Chronicle (Levin), 15 November 1949, Page 3
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