RETAIL PRICE OF FLOUR

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21708, 15 February 1936, Page 14

RETAIL PRICE OF FLOUR

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“TO BE MINISTER SAYS

The recent action of for ; Industries and Hon. D. G. Sullivan, sale prices for wheat leaving retail prices grocers uneasy. They everyone else has been the new scheme, the has been left against price-cutting' trade: Further, the forced to raise the priop the general an naturally will not; heh* taining the goodwill of The reasons given, •by r ter, when the matter was him, were that the intended to regulate aQ..thds details of the wheat dustry. Many regulation- had been for the present, fhe the scheme requited all tion. At some later- time, reta would be given consideratibiif Grocers’. Attitude trteSßSm The attitude of their wards the scheme was' for a representative o£ v ,k yesterday by Messrs v of Kincaids, Ltd., arid T. manager of Frank A. They both held the opinionTa^^^^g a .number of years.the had suffered considerablvl^ihti^^^^ chain stores selling flour which did not allow margin of profit Now, a'guar^^^^ return had been assured one concerned in the prodhch^^^^g distribution of flour iexeept^^^^ grocer, the- final distritiuta^^^^^P The disruption of tradjefo^g^^| fluctuating retail- price* been a constant* souree^^^gnßHH during fecent years Through price-cutting years had been sold ll figure and the same other staple lines such sugar. The GovernrocrißijjanMW would result in a higher cotf - itx & ' '“We do J>pt ask for ernmertt interference Mr Kincaid added, “but,. wheh#i«{ do interfere with Such commodity as flour and fc for the wheat growerr the baker, as welLas : in, the industry, the. of flour- through the tor should also be fixed.” Statement 'by “We 'have not. s ilSflce’of floiir because come into, our ischeme,” ter said when these ferred to him* “We to regulate Ad the wheat .and-flour, number' ef* suggestions presented ’to us idr fixifigf 'fiiySlHHi relation to innumerable all we have done-is to fix JpftMßSi of and flour For instance, the price of Bg|HH kinds of bread has’’niot>itaSWMHHH nor the cost of delivery; “If we were to late all these '• detells-ihe/ would be* to nationalise' industry. For the confining ourselves to tion of what has been and there is a vast in that. Other matters come up for attention.- f ’ there are fully 50 attended to. We - ; wifl retail price of flour, but^Dt>joraHHß