DRASTIC REGULATIONS
NATIONAL SECURITY MEASURES IN AUSTRALIA. IMPRISONMENT FOR PROFITEERS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 12.45 p.m.) CANBERRA, This Day. Under the provisions of the National Security Regulations, wartime profiteers may be imprisoned for life. Other penalties range from a fine up to £IOC or imprisonment up to six months. The imprisonment for life penalty applies to indictable offences. The alternative is a fine of any amount or imprisonment plus a fine. The regulations are designed to prevent the sale of declared goods at excessive prices, to eliminate speculative dealings in commodities generally, to prevent cornering and intermerchant selling and to break combines.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 September 1939, Page 6
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104DRASTIC REGULATIONS Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 September 1939, Page 6
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