STATE CONTROL OF PRICES
BRITISH MERCHANTS DESIRE INFORMATION.
London, March 4. In the House of Commons, Sir Donald Mac Lean stated that the commercial community was anxious to know when the Government control would be removed from wheat, meat, and tea. Huge stocks of meat remained in cold storage. Before the war.it was »ld at Gd. per lb., and now it was Is. 5Jd. Mr. 0. H.'Boberts, Food Controller, said that meat prices would shortly be substantially reduced. There' were only 96,000 tons in storage. Tea. would be released from control on March U. Ho defended the action of the Government in keeping up the pi'ice of wheat. The tonnage available was only sufficient to lift one million tons from Australia, which was our cheapest source, to arrive in -Europe in the present year.--Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 139, 7 March 1919, Page 5
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136STATE CONTROL OF PRICES Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 139, 7 March 1919, Page 5
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