PRICE OF JAM

Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 84, 9 April 1920, Page 6

PRICE OF JAM

INCREASE OF Id PER POUND.

"We are reluctant to advance prices, but are compelled to do so, owing to the rapid increase in the cost of production since the Ist January. This shows no sign of decreasing, in fact the tendencyis all the other 'way,, and markets are rising." In this manner a ■well-known manufacturing Brm notifies customers of increase in. the price. of all jam and marmalade of one penny per pound. The increase took effect this week.

After dv? consideration, and examination of manufacturing costs, together with landed costs of materials, the Board of Trade has granted permission to advance the price. The previous increase was in January, the first for two years, and that *was due chiefly to" the two increases in the price of sugar. The principal cause of the present advance *1s stated to be .the high cost of tinplates, which, beside being extremely difficult to obtain, now cost over 30s -per box in excess of last January rates', and the ■market is still advancing. Tin and lead are about 75 per cent, over- last years' price. Labels have just been increased by 25 -per cent., while coal is up 10s per ton, and it almost as hard to obtain as sugar. Wages also show a decided increase.

Glass jars, it is stated, cost considerably more to land, and, owing to strikes in Australia, have been unobtainable lately. "All these extra'costs." the manufacturers state, "mean in tha aggregate a very large sum to us, and we are compelled., in order to meet these extra manufacturing .expenses, U> advance the price of all jam and marmalade."