GRABBING THE EXTRA PROFIT
Sir—Would you please explain tlu> present position of tea tax. Have wholesale houses and retailers paid the new tax on stocks they now hold? I see bj» your paper some grocers in Wellingtom advanced the price of tea first thing ui. the morning, as soon as the Budget was. published. It is the same hero fn Palmerston North. In the light of recent events such as short-weight butter and faked milk-to say nothing of the standard loaf. wTiich wants a look now ana then—l think the powcrr, that be should put down the mailed fist; and give tho public a little British fair »s£-*s*> rNo tax has been payed, on stocks in. hand when the new duties were passed.?.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3159, 10 August 1917, Page 6
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123GRABBING THE EXTRA PROFIT Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3159, 10 August 1917, Page 6
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