PENNY MAXIMUM
PRICE OF SAFETY MATCHES TRIBUNAL ISSUES ORDER (By Telegraph.—Press Association) WELLINGTON, Friday The maximum price at which boxes of wooden safety matches can be sold retail in less than the customary packet lots is fixed at a penny a box by a price order issued tonight by the Price Tribunal.
The order applies to wooden matches of any brand or description contained in boxes designed to hold up to approximately 60 matches and is operative throughout New Zealand. Cases have been reported of more than a penny having been charged for a single box, but with the issue of the order that is now illegal.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21212, 7 September 1940, Page 12
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107PENNY MAXIMUM Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21212, 7 September 1940, Page 12
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