TRIBUNALS FOR PROFITEERS.
GOVERNMENT TAKING ACTION, By Telosrnph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, August (1Sir Auckland Geddes, giving evidencebefore the committee on profiteering, said that ;iew tribunals similar to the military service tribunals would be set up and empowered to inflict fines up to £2O or to refer the case to a court of summary jurisdiction, which would bo empowered to inflict fines of £2OO or six months' imprisonment. Appeal tribunals were being established for the protection of traders. The Government was considering whether it was possible to make profiteers disgorge the unfair profits already accumulated,
The apnouncement tlint tlie Government was introducing a Bill to establish tribunals to deal with profiteering came as a bombshell to the committee, which is now considering whether to discontinue the investigation, as tlie Oovernment lias decided the matter.--Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assu,
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 August 1919, Page 5
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