PRICE-FIXING POLICY
ACTION IN NEW SOUTH WALES. AGITATION AGAINST POTATO , EMBARGO. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. SYDNEY, February 18. According to the "Sunday Sun," the New South Wales Cabinet is drafting legislation for the creation of a pricefixing tribunal which will control excessive prices of commodition based upon the Auditor-General report of his inquiry into the price-fixing machinery in New Zealand. The newspaper then takes up the case for the removal of the embargo on New Zealand potatoes, declaring: “If this not not done, Tasmanian potatoes are likely to go to £4O a ton during the winter.” It is added that Sydney and Melbourne merchants have arranged for considerable purchases of New Zealand potatoes subject to a suspension of the ban.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 February 1939, Page 5
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119PRICE-FIXING POLICY Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 February 1939, Page 5
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