CONTROL OF PRICES
Commonwealth May Get
Post-War Powers ('■ANlil'jßßA. August 21. I'he Slate Premiers agreed to take action to attempt to have price control powers transferred to the Commonwealth for three years after lhe war. A conference will he held of Commonwealth and State legal advisers to draft a measure to tie submitted to the Stale Parliaments. The Commonwealth will retain control over building materiuls while they are in short supply. This was decided at the Premiers’ eon-ferem-e after I lie Minister id’ Post-war Re< uiisiriii-lion. Mr. Dedlllin. had delivered an ull inml uni to lhe Premiers. He said lll.it either the Commonwealth would retain control over allocations of materials in short supply, with the full backing of all lhe States, or the Slates themselves would have to take 'all the respoiisihiliy for materials.
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Dominion, Volume 38, Issue 278, 23 August 1945, Page 7
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134CONTROL OF PRICES Dominion, Volume 38, Issue 278, 23 August 1945, Page 7
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