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SEVERE SENTENCES

ON SYDNEY GREENGROCERS ACCUSED OF PROFITEERING. IN DEFIANCE OF PRICE REGULATIONS. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.35 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Two greengrocers have been given gaol sentences on charges of profiteering by selling fruit and vegetables at more than the fixed prices. Other greengrocers have been fined amounts ranging from £5 to £125 in the first of a series of prosecutions for breaches of the price fixing regulations. More than 150 cases are to be heard. Appeals against the severity of the sentences have been lodged. The piofiteering” profit in the cases heaid varied from. 9 to 50 per cent. The Crown Prosecutor said he had been instructed by the Federal AttorneyGeneral (Dr. Evatt) to announce that the price fixing regulations must be obeyed. The regulations allowed a liberal profit, which must not be exceeded.

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https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19431027.2.6

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 October 1943, Page 2

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140

SEVERE SENTENCES Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 October 1943, Page 2

SEVERE SENTENCES Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 October 1943, Page 2

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