FOOD PRICES.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 113, 15 May 1925, Page 4

FOOD PRICES.

Eggs are still in very short supply. During the week, hen eggs sold at auction at 3/5 to 3/7 per dozen. Duck eggs being more plentiful were knocked down at from 3/1 to 3/2J per dozen, and pullet eggs at 2/11 to 3/1 per dozen. Retail rates to-day for fresh eggs ruled from 3/6 to 3/10 per dozen, duck eggs 3/6, and preserved eggs 2/6 ncr dozen. Butter sells retail at 1/8 per lb. for superfine, 1/7 for first grade, and 1/6 for second grade. Cheese is quoted 1/2 to 1/4 per lb., and extra choice matured up to 1/6 per lb. Bacon and hams are in good supply. Bacon in cuts is quoted from. fUd. to 1/4 per lb. and rasher 9 1/3 to 1/5. Whole hams sell at 1/1 to 1/2 per lb retail, and rashers 1/6 to 1/8 per lb. CANADA'S WOOLLEN INDUSTRY BRITISH COMPETITION. PLEA FOR PROTECTION. The woollen manufacturing industry in Canada is menaced by British and ■ foreign competition. Speaking at the annual meeting of Canadian woollen manufacturers in Toronto, the president reported a sharp decline in productiou in Canadian mills, while heavy imports continued. Imports of woollen nn£ worsted cloth from Great Britain in 1921 were 13.095,000 square yards, which in 1924 had increased to 30.154,200 square 1 yards. The total imports in 1921 were I too high at 29,194,012d015, but after reductions in duties they averaged 30.574.539d01s for 1922, 1923. and 1924. Canadian mills were as well equipped as mills abroad, he said. The workers ' and technical men were as skilled and as good quality of goods were made, but protection was necessary, "because our main competition comes from Great Britain and the Continent, where the workers accept lower wages and exist on a lower standard of comfort." Emphasising the importance of the textile industry to Canada, he said that if the textile factories in Canada -were wiped out five in every hundred people in the country would find the source of their maintenance gone. Resolutions were passed advocating that the specially low duties granted Great Britain be discontinued, and that the research laboratory of the association, the only one of its kind in Canada, be continued.