PROFITEERING.
DEPENDING BOARD.
The 'Minister (the Hon. E. P. Lee), in the House of. Representatives last week, deprecated belittling remarks of members against' the work of the Prices Investigation Tribunals. Such statements did not help' matters at all —especially when directed against men who were not paid for their services—when the members criticising had little knowledge ahont the operations of these tribunals. Their work had been valuable; a great deal of investigation of which the public knew little had been carried out, and the result undoubtedly had been to keep down prices. Mr Lee pointed out that, in spite of the jeers that had been levelled at the tribunals, it was very important that profiteering should be discovered in the small things — things required in every-day life. It was not so important to prevent profiteering on high-priced articles.
Dr. Newman said he recognised what had been said by the Minister in regard to the importance of prosecuting profiteers in small “everyday” articles, hut what about the hoot manufacturers who made profits out of hides ?
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2161, 10 August 1920, Page 2
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174PROFITEERING. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2161, 10 August 1920, Page 2
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