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PROFITEERING ALLEGED.

MORE OHRISTCHURCH CASES. ST Telegraph Prws Association. Christchurch, Last Night. 'Nine informations alleging breaches of the anti-profiteering section of the Board of Trade" Act, 1919, have been laid against two Christchurch firms, a Lyttelton firm, and a Christchurch chemist, by the secretary of the local price investigation tribunal. Six of the ;iine informations have been laid against a firm of tobacco importers and fancy goods merchants, and all relate to an' alleged unreasonably high price charged for Clarence cigarettes. Another firm of merchants is being proceeded against on a similar charge in respect of the same brand df , cigarettes. A local chemist is being proceeded against for having, it Is alleged, charged an "unreasonably •"high' , price for a "Winchester" (half a gallon) of Borol. The Lyttelton Arm is to be called upon to answer a charge of selling rabbit trap's at' a price alleged to ba unreasonably high.

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Taranaki Daily News, 21 July 1920, Page 5

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PROFITEERING ALLEGED. Taranaki Daily News, 21 July 1920, Page 5

PROFITEERING ALLEGED. Taranaki Daily News, 21 July 1920, Page 5

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