PRICE OF BREAD.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 186, 6 August 1914, Page 4

PRICE OF BREAD.

NO RISE VET. FLOUR SLIGHTLY DEAftfifc SUPPLIES WILL LAST tflt HARVEST. > Various rumours have been to the effect that big rises in fte "Jri* of flour, and bread will sh&fiiy tike effect in Auckland, but inquiry to-4iy clicitrd the information that the Mister Bakers' Association has not yet SBet to consider the position, and that So ft---crease iv the price of bre&d Ms been ordered. . ~ | In conversation with tt reporter. &Ir Peter Virtue, of the "Norther" Roller Milling Company, said that it ■had been reported that his company had advanced the price of flour By £1 10/ per ton. As a matter of fact,.tDt rise was only one of 15/ pet ton, equalto ninepehce per hundred pounds. ' "It may not be known." said Mr Virtue, ''but" there is a Wheat harvest f« every month of the year throughout tw world, so it is obvious that ProVid*** knows that bread ia -the mainstay Wj*s people's foodstuffs. War may interfere with the harvesting of the Europe* I crops, which are now ready, but 64* j consolation for the Colonies is that th* j j Commonwealth and Dfominioh crops wjM . j |be on the market /arly in the ye«- i j Until then there is ail ample supply 10T j - home consumption."' j /