PRICE OF FLOUR AND BREAD COMPARED.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 6488, 15 September 1915, Page 3

PRICE OF FLOUR AND BREAD COMPARED.

(To th« Editor.) % - Sir,—The Auckland Master Bakers' Association has a sliding scale on which they base the price of bread, *hich is as follows: Flour at £6 to £8 ,Wrton, 3d per loaf; flour at £8 to *i% 3Jdper 21b loaf; £10 to £12 per _ - wn, 4d per 21b loaf. For ten years ' jjpioua to the present great war, I W»nk lam right in sajing flour had 1 «ot been high enough in price to -charge more than 4d per 21b loaf in aucfciiad, and as far as my knowledge *TOs me anything above the prices quoted was never considered by the Association. Now, Sir, as a ton of ™ur tu™a out 1300 21b loaves, it will »c seen that a rise of half-penny per w, or 1300 half-pence, amounts to ton 'W a gain of 14s 2d I)er *n°w quote the present price of wher local or Southern flour landed in "" keho «se: Auckland, net £15 per ™It«JT onJ or writin«is that l bread could and should be . **» at 4jd per loaf, not 5d as at preh«L v SCt ' for three week^ past JKid should have dropped to 4*d per «rtoMl of living. But no, not til! SdSTSf^S"- Now-Sir'witbin a land r Pnßbt mnes of the AucktZZ a* M?Riveted; or, for . ■2?S^ wl0(j»000 loaves, which, at - S 5J tt'*cmy» works out at £2083 6s # : S.-5 to purchase leather ; JJ^J^* 8U A"ckiand s°idiersM B. LANE, V "^ter-fiaker,1 Devonport.