STATE CONTROL OF ALL VEGETABLES
Canterbury Forecast
Increasing Government control of the marketing of fruit and vegetables is regarded as inevitable by the newly-elected president of tbe Canterbury I ruit Buyers Association, Mr. A. Sadler. The time was approaching, he said, when all vegetables would be governed by price orders and grading standards. Asked what effect the regulations were haviii"* on retailers, Sir. Sadler said that profitable trading was becoming increasingly difficult and it was only a matter of time when many retailers who were operating on an uneconomic basis would be forced out of the trade. Because of the short supply of many fruits and vegetables and the reduced margin of profit permitted by the 1 rice Tribunal on ‘wholesale prices that had risen iu many cases to record heights, the income of all fruiterers had been substantially reduced. lie cited the case M one retailer who had an income of i-U a week before the war and who today was struggling to make ±6.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 17, 15 October 1943, Page 3
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166STATE CONTROL OF ALL VEGETABLES Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 17, 15 October 1943, Page 3
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