NEWS BY MAIL
VIENNA LOOTING. VIENNA, Dec. 2. Serious rioting has been aaused by* the decision to end all State subsidies for essential foodstuffs at the end of December. The minimum of food to support life is considered unattainable at the market prices for the vast majority of the population. Disturbances to-day followed a demonstration before Parliament. Crowds looted the shops in the city and the suburbs and smashed windows anc taxi-cabs, causing a complete suspension of business and tarffic. Everywhere shops were shuttered. The main grievance is the increased price of bread. There are enormous increases this week in everything, because 150 crowns are now worth only a penny. The kroner was worth lod before the
the Minister of Agriculture that brokerage on sales of wheat was increased by I’d per bushel last season. The brokerage to he paid oil the coming season’s emp is at present under consuloration. He denies that in any telegram from the Wheat Controller advising that last year’s additional bonus ..was to he paid to Government brokers (for the year ending .February 28th last
the -Wheat-Controller used the words, “■ilnforjn .vour members as quietly as possible;”
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 January 1922, Page 4
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192NEWS BY MAIL Hokitika Guardian, 28 January 1922, Page 4
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