COMBAT MEASURES
BRITAIN’S BLACK MARKET EXTENSIVE OPERATIONS PLANNED N.Z.P.A. Special Correspondent Rec. 10 p.m. LONDON, Dec. 10. In an effort to check the growing black market in livestock, poultry, bacon, and rabbits Mr John Strachey has set up a committee of three, headed by Sir John Bodinnar, president of the Food Manufacturers’ Association. The committee is charged with investigating conditions at sales, the general operations of black market buyers, and with devising methods to combat their activities. The committee will commence its work immediately. Simultaneously, Scotland Yard, in conjunction with Ministry of Food enforcement officers, is devising extensive plans for establishing a ring of police traps around London in order to check the contents of vehicles suspected of carrying black market food. Most of the black market supplies entering the capital are stated to be carried by road and the marked decrease in road traffic as a result of the abolition of the basic petrol ration is expected to assist the police in their task. Regular surprise. inspections of country' sales and markets . are also planned.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26641, 11 December 1947, Page 7
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176COMBAT MEASURES Otago Daily Times, Issue 26641, 11 December 1947, Page 7
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