LOWER PRICES CAMPAIGN.
SUCCESS IN AMERICA. Vancouver, Aug. 29. A Chicago message states that the prices of foodstuffs of all kind 9 continued on -Hip down scale to-day, in consequent of the campaign against the high cost of living. Live hogs sold for 03 5d a hundred pounds and cattle for fls a hundred pounds liclow yesterday's prices. Stockyard officials complain that the public is buying little dressed meat. An Ottawa message states that tha Canadian Government announces that it will start a eountrv-wido campaign against high prices similar to that being carried on in the United States, An inquiry will open to ascertain fljhfr 19 guilty of overcharging. The announcement adds: "There seems to be reasonable ground for expectation that prices are about to drop, and that it will be advantageous for the holders to sell promptly and avoid the lossc* that wijl uadoufcj&djg aocui."
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Taranaki Daily News, 24 September 1919, Page 6
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146LOWER PRICES CAMPAIGN. Taranaki Daily News, 24 September 1919, Page 6
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