ALLEGED PROFITEERING
: 1 . IN WOOLLEN AND LEATHER GOODS. Several references to profiteering were, made by Mr. W. D. Lysuar in the course of a speech made by him in a deptuation from the Farmers'' Union Conference' waiting on the Minister in Charge of Imperial Supplies (the Hon. D. H. Guthrie) on Saturday. Mr. Lysnar asked tho Minister to take notice of the high price charged to the New Zealand consumer for woollen and leather goods. Earners last year got on the average Is. 2Jd. for their wool, whereas if wool ware bought in the shops tho price would be from 9s. Cd. to 255. a pound. Hides had not increased 2d. per lb., whiln if a man had to buy a pair of lwots lie had to pay from ten shillings to twenty shillings more per pair for them. Ho thought that there wero good grounds fov the request that the matter should be investigated. Sir James Wilson said that it hadbeen stated at the conference that it cost fivq shillings per pair for the wool with which to knit a pair of socks for a soldier. Mr. Guthrie said that the matter was one which might properly be investigated by the Board of .Trade. He would have pleasure in referring it to ihe board.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 271, 5 August 1918, Page 4
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215ALLEGED PROFITEERING Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 271, 5 August 1918, Page 4
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