TO STOP PROFITEERING.

Taihape Daily Times, 23 September 1919, Page 3

TO STOP PROFITEERING.

George H_ Roberts, British Food Controller, speaking in Yor-lcsliiz-e, held out no hope of prices this coming winter being lower than last \\'ill.‘.3r. The Government Was deterniini-d to stop profiteering, -he said, but if every profiteer was guillotined to-morrow it would not bring prices lfiovm lo the level everybody desired. Ilford, the enormous industrial area which starts out from East London has established a. street nl:l|.'l{-3f, wller:3. Small Dl-“(itiueers sell fruit, poultry and vegetables. The market is rm enormous success. This ‘week-end= (July 2) prices ruled from 50 to‘ 60 per cent. lower than shop prices. ‘While ;‘nr. 11ford example irrthug attempting to stop I)l‘ofit9el'illg' is geiierally Common-:1-ed, it is 110 t f_ol‘got’re_n mat Sh()pkoopl:l‘S have high rent rates, whilst. 1-he man with a street stall has few such liabilities. Curiously er.ol:-gh, Ilford has a strike on ‘hand of all the rrmziimpal employees: The place is In darkness. is un-sz-.'ept', and no trams are running. Thedispute arises over the ssmall payment of scavellgel's_