PRICE CONTROL
4 PROBLEMS OF HOUSEWIFE. Now that the British housewife discovers an occasional price-controlled lemon in the greengrocer's shop, she cannot find a price-controlled frozen cod fillet to squeeze it over, notes the ‘Daily Telegraph" Many housewives are beginning to believe in a Civil Service magician who makes objects disappear with a magic wand called Price Control. Immediately this wand has passed over an onion, a lemon or—now —«t cod fillet, it vanishes mysteriously. When onions were Is a lb or more they gleamed roundly from the greengrocer s stall. Thee. —abracadabra—one pass of tn<- wand Price Control and the J onions went, leaving only a fragrant memory and a fresh price ticket markid -lid a lb Recently the price of frozen cod fillet was controlled at a maximum of Is .‘ld a lb to the public and Ils fid a stone to the fish frier mid retailer, Since that latest flourish of the magic wand frozen cod fillets have disappeared.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 January 1941, Page 9
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162PRICE CONTROL Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 January 1941, Page 9
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