FOOD PRICES
EFFECT OF GOVERNMENT CONTROL RISING COST OF LIVING CHECKED. NO CHANGE IN DECEMBER. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day. 10.10 a.m.) LONDON, January 31.
Sir John Simon in the House of Commons said the increase in wholesale prices of food which occurred immediately after the outbreak of war was in a sense the natural result of transition from peacetime to wartime conditions. It would be a mistake to imagine it necessarily foreshadows a series of similar and even more marked increases in prices. The cost of living index had increased over 10 per cent before December. However it remained quite steady between December 1 and January 1, due to Governmentcontrol, which cost £1,000.000 weekly.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 February 1940, Page 5
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116FOOD PRICES Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 February 1940, Page 5
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