ORGANISATION IN N.Z.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 229, 28 September 1938, Page 13

ORGANISATION IN N.Z.

RELATION TO FLOUR PRICE.

NEW SOUTH WALES INTEREST

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, this day.

Mr. John. Spence, Auditor-General of New South Wales, who is visiting Wellington at the request of his Government for the purpose of acquainting himself first-hand with the legislative machinery and organisation in New Zealand for fixing pr-'ces, arrived by the Wanganella, accompanied by his wife, and Mr. P. J. Dunworth, a senior member of his staff, who has been investigating the price of bread in New South Wales and its relation to the price of flour.

Mr. Spence said he was unable to speak for his own Government in the matter, but he understood that the posof adopting a fixed price for wheat in the Commonwealth was under consideration, and that the data he secured would be used in connection with that scheme. According to newspaper reports, the question had been one of the matters discussed at a recent conference of Australian Premiers. So far as he knew, the Government of New South Wales was not concerned with price fixation outside of wheat, bread and flour. They were not considering the guaranteed price, but a fixed price, which was a different thing.