FIXED PRICE FOR MILD CHEESE

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 99, 23 October 1942, Page 4

FIXED PRICE FOR MILD CHEESE

The maximum retail price of mild cheese has been fixed at Is, a pound by a price order issued last night. Mild cheese, for the purpose of the order, is cheese up to four months old, and excludes any form of fancy cheese, process cheese, or cheese paste. The order enables retailers who have to pay their own freight from the nearest point of wholesale supply to pass on the, additional cost in the retail price. Th& Price Tribunal says that on an average* basis the Is maximum would involve no increase in price to the public. On the other hand the operation of a generally even price would supersede the present variations in price frond shop to shop and from place to place* The retailers' earlier margin of profit would remain virtually unchanged) because of the wholesale prices which v ; had also been fixed, while cheese . manufacturing factories, after making, reasonable provision for wholesale distributors' commission, would receive a net return comparing favourably with ■ today's equivalent of the guaranteed;., price. The wholesale prices fixed by/; the tribunal are: Not less than stan-. ~ dard crate lots, crated: Exports, 9jd;; mediums, 9Jd. Not less than standard crate lots, uncrated: Exports, 9. l-Bd;_'-mediums, 9 3-Bd. Less than standard;^ crate lots: Exports, 91d; mediums, 9Jd.

The Mayor, Mr. Hislpp, hat 'NlMl.ix;, to the regional commissioner •fHl«na-_ tional Service Department, aaßng wiat. I in order to secure uniformity WUfougn-. ■ out the country, the National Service;: Department should give a direction;, about carrying on E.P.S. duties, mr eluding fire-watching, during the! Christmas holiday period. ;i