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Show MERCHANT8 HOLD UP PRICES New Zealand Commissioner Says That Products Are 50 Per Cent Too High San Francisco, Feb. 21. Flat declaration de-claration that millions of dollnrs worth of dairy products, lamb mutton and wool are being Imported Into the United States at prices that should permit of them being Bold at prices 60 per cent lower than the present selling price was voiced here today by Edmund Clifton of Wellington, Now Zealand, commissioner for that country to the Panama exposition. A commission ot middlemen, said Clifton, Is making an enormous profit pro-fit out of these products While tho masBeB are going hungry. Every city on tho Pacific coast Is paying this toll to greed. New Zealand has exported ex-ported $75,000,000 worth of food pro-I pro-I , ducts to the United States within a B year. This products sliould bo sold WyP at least CO per cent lower than tho prevailing prices. |