GENERAL CABLES
ANT f-PR OF HE ERING BILL
United press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON, October 2. 'Lhe text of the Anti-Profiteering Bill provides that if a food shortage appears likely, or if there is any unreasonable increase in the price of any article of food or drink of general consumption, the Board of Trade may regulate and deal therein. It also provides for the summary trial of the offenders. With a penalty of one hundred sterling, or three months impi isoument, with the forfeiture of profits. The Bill remains in force for six months. FAM ISHED GERM AN. POTATO FIELDS RAIDED. COTpGNE, Septemerb 24. Raiding potato fields during the week-emir 300 famished unemployed stripped them of their crops before police could. reach the scene. Thirty of the men were later arrested. Public assistance is already being given to 22 per cent, of Cologne’s population, and there will be officially organised collections at intervals throughout the winter to assist needy families.
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 October 1931, Page 5
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160GENERAL CABLES Hokitika Guardian, 3 October 1931, Page 5
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