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TO CHECK PROFITEERING

TRIBUNALS SET UP. The Prime Minister >made the following statement yesterday regarding the setting up of anti-profiteering tribunals.:. 'Following- the , announcement I made recently regarding the composition of the committee at Auckland to deal with complaints made under the anti-profiteering section of the Board of Trade Act, I have now to announce that the Government has appointed the. following gentle? men to act. in a'similar capacity' in Christchurch:—Messrs. C. P. Agar (manager of the Tai Tapu Dairy Company and city, councillor)! W. H., Norton (retired auctioneer)','ahd'F. Ellis (secretary of the Slaughtermen's Union). • "At Duncdin the commilte will comprise:—Messrs. J. J. Clark (ex-Mayor), ■T. M. Galloway (retired barrister and solicitor), and S. C. Brown (vice-president of the Tailoresses' Ijiiion and 1 secretary of the Operative Bootmakers' Union).' . "The Wellington committee will : bo composed of the followin?- members:— Messrs. C. M. Luke (nf the Wellington Central Chamber of Commerce), A. . J. Maxwell (retired insurance manager and a gentleman of considerable commercial experience ■in Australia- and New Zealand), and M. J.-Reardon (ex-president of the Trades and Labour Council and secretary of the Slaughtermen's Union), As has been pointed out. these com. nuttees will'be prepared. to investigate any complaint, made eithor by letter or personally, .that the price of .any,..article is unreasonably high, wd in any case where it is considered that a prima facie case has been established the. facts will reported to the Board of Trade at nollington. which will decide as to whether the Government will undertake a prosecution or not." \ *

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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 138, 6 March 1920, Page 7

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TO CHECK PROFITEERING Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 138, 6 March 1920, Page 7

TO CHECK PROFITEERING Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 138, 6 March 1920, Page 7

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