Price Control in Fiji
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Chamber of Commerce Wants it Lifted
From Our Own Correspondent SUVA, Sept. 1 BECAUSE a black market in sharps (imported for the Indian commun ity) is developing, Suva Chamber of Commerce, at its August meeting, de cided to oppose the heavy Government subsidies on sharps and flour.
The black market, it is claimed, is likely to affect the cost of living indices of Indian workmen on which Government wages are based.
The Chamber of Commerce has also launched an attack on price control gen erally on the grounds that the task of administering and supervising universal control is beyond the Government’s powers. The large stores find the system “onerous to the last degree” and “the difficulties of avoiding an offence against
the law practically insuperable”.
A list of 30 or 40 necessities will be drawn up, and it will be suggested that control be retained on these items but lifted from all other commodities.