PRICE OF BREAD
ro rue editor or the press Sir, —Would you kindly inform me if a grocer can legally charge 3£d for a lib loaf, of no special b -and. If so, four loaves would cost Is 2d. which is exorbitant, as they are always a few ounces below weight, anyhow.—Yours, etc., ENQUIRER.
[An officer of the Department of Industries and Commerce said that the regulations covered only the two and four-pound loaves. If the correspondent wished for further information he could call at the offices of the department in Christchurch.]
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21938, 12 November 1936, Page 9
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92PRICE OF BREAD Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21938, 12 November 1936, Page 9
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