Dealmß will, profiteering in his election address, Mr. A. J. Entrican, a candidate for Auckland West, explained that if cases were carefully investigated it would be found that the merchants were not getting more than the average of profit. He instanced a line which he said,, was in every day demand in small quantities. This was sold before the war at Bd to 6-M per pound, and cost ■>d to »i/,d to land. To-day the wholesale _eost was 5s fid per pound, but it cost aa to land. Thus the rate of profit per cent, was less than before the war. The candidate did not mention the name " f the commodity, hut when question le came nun of thr. <.„JS-> ? '. £f,..a.i, v nsistem. as fo its name. Mr. Lntncan then stated M>»t it was camway seeds a p.oee of that convulsed tke audisuca
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Taranaki Daily News, 29 November 1919, Page 12
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143Page 12 Advertisements Column 4 Taranaki Daily News, 29 November 1919, Page 12
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