FLOUR AND BREAD.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 67, 19 March 1919, Page 6

FLOUR AND BREAD.

« RECOMMENDATION BY THE BOARD OF TRADE. A decision has been arrived at by the Board of Trade to recommend the Government to pay a subsidy to flourmillers in order to prevent a rtee in the price of bread, which, the Board considers, would otherwise be inevitable on account of the increase in the price of wheat and also in the manufacturing charges. It is stated that an advance of Bd. a bushel in the price of wheat is equivalent to £1 12/ per ton in the price of flour, allowing 48 bushels to the ton. Taking also the increase in the price of sacks from IOAd. to 1/5 each, and allowing 15 eacks to the ton, this was equal to 8/2. Advances in the price of carting were equivalent to 7/C, bringing the total increase in the price of flour per ton to £2 17/8. On the basis of the figures piven, the miller selling flour at the fixed price would sustain a loss of £2 17/8 per ton, and the Board recommended the payment of a subsidy of this amount. DUNEDIN BAKERS' DEPUTATION. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. The Bakers' Conference appointed a deputation to interview the Board of Trade regarding the price of bread in the various centres.