PRICE OF FLOUR
There is a movement on the part of millers to raise the price of'flour and bran and pollard to meet increased costs of wheat, and increased costs of official manufacture. The price at present is 5s lOd per bushel for wheat. For flour it is £15 per ton, and £3 10s for bran and £6 15s for pollard respectively. Millers now find that the wheat is costing them 5s Hid per bushel by the addition of l^d per bushel charges, whereas last year they were paying 5s 7d; but now with a3d per bushel rise and l^d charges, the cost is 5s ll£d per bushel, and extra manufacturing costs—coal, etc.—are set down at 18s to £1 per ton.
A meeting of millers is to be held at Christchurch to-morrow to discuss the whole position with the Minister, the Hon. W. D. S. Mac Donald, and the members of the Board of Trade—Messrs W. G. M'Donald, J. R. Hart, and P. Hally.
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Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 60, 11 March 1918, Page 8
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164PRICE OF FLOUR Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 60, 11 March 1918, Page 8
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