TOBACCO LEAF
Basic Average Prices
An order has been issued by the Price Tribunal fixing the basic average prices of tobacco leaf. The minimum average prices are 1/11J for flue-cured leaf, and 1/8 ) for air-dried leaf of the 1944 harvest. . , „ The Minister of Industries and Commerce, Mr. Sullivan, states that the prices fixed were the minimum average prices to be paid by each manufacturer in respect of his total purchases of leaf of the 1944 crop. , The order is similar to that issued b. 7 the tribunal last year, fixing the basic average prices for the 1943 crop, lhe prices fixed this year, however, are Id. per lb. in advance of those which ruled previously. Retail prices will not be affected by this increase.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 125, 22 February 1944, Page 4
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124TOBACCO LEAF Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 125, 22 February 1944, Page 4
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