BREAD PRICES.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 50, 27 February 1915, Page 4

BREAD PRICES.

STATE WHEAT SVTrir. HOW CHARGES ARE CONTROLLED,; (By Telegraph.—Special te "SUr.") . WELLINGTON, this ■ The further increose ;:, the I fS* "fl broad prompted your correspondent fo put to the Prime .Minister eoie nations a> to whether the Goviernnient f* distributing its wheat purchases. impLi any limitation upon the ultimate pH™ I which the consumer lias to pay. , I '-Thorp has been a little alteration 'in ' the conditions we imposed upon pur I chasers of < iovernment wheat." repLj i the Prime Minister, "and it is this: TU I new wheat is coming in. The wheat'shini have arrived a week or ten days iatw than wo expected, and the milieu Dot mix the old wheat I the Canadian)" iritb the new crop, the object being to ntafei better flour. It is well known that teij wheat does not by its-elf make a firjt class flour, so that mixing is The new arrangement made with fe J millers is that the price at which tllev j must sell the flour will be band 6n £ii : I 10/ for flour ground from Canidiati y-htat : alone, but if this is mixed wittSeffZea. I land wheat bought at a higher price, ! then the price of flour will be allowed to I increase in otrict proportion. The iait j lers have agreed to this, only t*6 ; m til - whole of New Zealand raising ant-ofm* tion." Asked how the shipments- had tm allocated, the Prime Minister stated tbat the board set up for the purpoK took into consideration the milling capacity ani i average business done by the applicant Upon this basis they allocated the ■rfett, "And," added the Prime Minister, "v have had scarcely any grumbles." l Your eorrsepondent suggested that if the price of bread was too high in ifa portion to the cost of the wheat told b* the Government, it might be possible foe the State to fix the reasonable buig W doing its own milling and baking in 1034 centre. The Pfiitie Ministers reply -Wig" {jy no experiment of that sort appeired te ' be needed, but he expected to be ad*fa4 on the subject of the price of bread by th Food Commission, which had just endej its sittings in Auckland.