PRICE OF BREAD
(From Our Own Correspondent.) SYDNEY, 22nd July. Bread, which has now gone up to CM the 21b loaf, is dearer to-day than it" has been at any time in Sydney in the last fifty years. Approximately 750,000 loaves of bread are required daily to satisfy tho hunger of the people in the metropolitan area. Under tho new price, our daily bread bill amounts to £19,531 ss, or £15G2 19s a day more than we were paying last week. In 1914, at the outbreak ■. of the war, with flour at £8 18s 3d a ton, the price of the loaf was 3id. At the end of the war it had risen only one penny. If the price of-bread in Sydney continues to soar tho community will be wondering .whether another little war might not help to bring the cost of the loaf down again. The facility with which the master bakers can parade quite a lot of excuses for hitting up the price of bread is amazing. When asked if this is to Be the last increase they reply that the millers or the Labour Government can only answer that.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 25, 29 July 1926, Page 4
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192PRICE OF BREAD Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 25, 29 July 1926, Page 4
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