PROFITEERS AND TRUSTS
BRITISH GOVERNMENT UNEASY. London, June 17. Mr. C.-A. M'Curdy, Secretary for the Ministry of Food, announces that owing to the expectation of a further rise in food pri.;is next winter, tho Government is considering the resumption of national or inter-Alljed purchases of essential foodstuffs to stabilise prices and abolish speculative buyers. The rapid multiplication of truete to maintain high prices is.proceeding at an alarming rate. The American Meal Trust's growing power and control of tho world's meat prices are causing the Government ■un-easiness.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 227, 19 June 1919, Page 5
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88PROFITEERS AND TRUSTS Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 227, 19 June 1919, Page 5
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