PRICE OF BREAD
Flour is down to £12 10s a ton in the South, less 2£ per cent. The discount goes a long way- towards paying freight and other charges incidental to landing it in Wellington. It has been suggested that holders of flour might be tempted to quit at £12 a ton. At any rate, some of the flour could possibly be landed here at £12 10s. This is a heavy reduction on £17 per ton, the price which was taken as justification for the lifting of the price of bread to lOd per four-pound loaf. It has since come back a trifle, Id per quartern. Some consumers think that with flour- at £12 10s it is time the bakers were heard from. Of course* some baking and other large firms bought at £17 per ton, possibly even more, when flour commanded any price during the scare^ — which now appears to have been unwarranted. The Wellington master bakers will meet in the ordinary way on Thursday next, and the price of * bread may then be discussed.
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Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 82, 5 October 1915, Page 8
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177PRICE OF BREAD Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 82, 5 October 1915, Page 8
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