FIXING OF PRICES
BOARD OF TRADE CONTROL. DEPRECATED BY FARMERS. The fixing of prices by the Government and the scope of the Board of Trade were the subjects of two remits containing deprecatory suggestions which were adopted by tho h armers Conference at Auckland. Both were from the executive, the first confined to a few words, being that the conference most emphatically opposes embargoes and price fixing. The other was that the conference protests most emphatically against the ’ Board of Trade being required to go » outside its proper functions and interfere in any way with pricbs or tho distribution and sale of commodities, ns the results of such actions are always harmful, and generally fail to prevent high prices except when dealimr with the produce of the land. "\Ve stronglv object to profiteering.’ • continued the wording, “especially with regard to common necessaries, but we do not see that there are any effective remedies short of a decrease in consumption and increase in production, and a removal as far as possible of restrictions on overseas commerce.”
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10603, 31 May 1920, Page 5
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175FIXING OF PRICES New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10603, 31 May 1920, Page 5
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