FOOD PRICES IN BRITAIN
♦ . NO REDUCTION IN SIGHT THE CHIEF CAUSES By Telcgraph-Presa Association-Copyright (Itec. September 5, 0.15 a.m.) London, September 1. Mr. C. A. M'Curdy, Parliamentary Secretary to tho Food Ministry, in an address to tlio Consumers' Council, prophesied that thero would bo no reduction in food prices (luring tho winter because they wove regulated by world conditions. "An archangel couldn't do it," he said; Tho high priccs were due to tho raising of tho blockade on Central Europe, the fall in tho exchanges, increased wages, and diminished production." He would endeavour to eliminate speculators .and all middlemen who were not normally engaged in trading. in food—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 12, 5 September 1919, Page 7
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110FOOD PRICES IN BRITAIN Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 12, 5 September 1919, Page 7
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