The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-11-30
LICENSEES WILL
/. Be UNDER CONTROL
Smaller Firms Also Under Scru-
tiny Of Food Managers, Says
:. Food Administrator Child

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Now that the licensing of local firms
dealing in food-stuffs is actually being
done, Food Administrator J. f. Child
says that the administration viii find
It easy TO control the prices charged by
the dealers IL they should prove exof-
bitant. The license makes this possible.
Under the terms by which they are
licensed the firms are required TO make
n periodical report giving the prices
paid for their goods and the prices at
which they are being sold. Profits are
calculated on q pre-war basis, and no
dealer is to be allowed to charge a price
which win give him greater profits
than he obtained on the same line of
that he is doing this, his license will
be revoked, thus putting an end to his
business at once.
Hundred in Hawah
There are about hundred firms in
the Territory to be licensed, some of
which are wholesale and some retail
The smaller retailing firms will be al
so under the control of the food adj
ministration, even If unlicensed. If it
can be proved that any of them are
charging excessive prices, the food ad-
ministration win order the licensed
firms TO stop selling their goods until
they have some surety of their per-
mancnt discontinuance of the practise.
In this way both small and large deal
crs will be subject to control by the ad-
ministratiOn. .t....D
Wholesalers Profit ta
The wholesalers profit in war times,
at least on non+perishable foods, should
be governed by the price he actually
pays for the goods he sells, and not by
the principle established by the Food
Administration in special regulations
which were put into effect November
with respect to a large number of
! commodities.
The rule is one Of large number
which are now being completed for the
guidance of the food dealers who will
be placed under license by the Food
Administration. E.T
1t provides that no dealer in certain
| specified commodities shall sell cat
more than a reasonable advance over
the actual purchase price Of the par,
! ticular goods sold, without regard to
the market or replacement value at the
time of such sale"
The commodities covered by the rule
| includes beef, pork and mutton, syrups
| and moIaSsrs, cleaned rice and rice
flour, oIcomargarine, lard and lard sub
stitutcs, oleo oil, cooking fats, con,
| densrd milk and various canned goods
| and dried fruits,
Refined Sugar Dealers rE
7 Wholesale dealers in refined sugar
are required by a similar rule to sell
cat an advance over the trefinersb list
price at which he purchased such sugar
greater than the normal margin charg,
ed BY Wholesale dealers in refined sugar
in the same locality or such margin as
may hereafter be established by the
| Food Administration. "
With regard to perishable foods, the
Food Administration announced today
that il will make prompt and full
examination of any localities in which
rises in price occur, and will deal in
divdually by administrative orders
with dealers charging excessive prices.
A general rule covering all licensed
foods provided, that they shall not be
handled anywhere in the United States
on an unjust exOrbitant, unreason-
able, discriminatory or unfair commits.
sion, profit or storage CHARGE
Regular and special reports will be
called for by the Food Administration
from each icensee. b.
The Food Administration emphasizes
that no business man will be expected
to forego his normal reasonable profits.
The object is to prevent the acquisition
of speculative profits resulting from
a rising market. .,.&D