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FOOD RACKET

EXPOSED IN BRITAIN ALLEGED SALE OF RESERVE. STOCKS. INVESTIGATIONS BY SCOTLAND YARD. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.10 p.m.) LONDON. September 17. Scotland Yard detectives, working with Ministry of Food enforcement officers, claim to have discovered evidence of a large-scale food racket in England. Part of the Government food supplies, built up as a special reserve in case of invasion, is believed to have been sold through the “black market”— a name given to an organisation trafficking in scarce foodstuffs, which were sold at three times their controlled price. The racketeers have been able to gain control of hundreds of tons of the country’s most valuable foodstuffs. Elack market deals involved tens of thousands of pounds. Britain has ordered fifteen million cases of canned Californian tomatoes as an emergency food and drink supply in the event of invasion.

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https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19410918.2.60

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 September 1941, Page 6

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FOOD RACKET Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 September 1941, Page 6

FOOD RACKET Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 September 1941, Page 6

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