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Evening Star, Issue 15720, 6 February 1915, Page 4

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1 ONDDN WOOL SALES, Pre*« Astociadon—By Telegraph- --Copyrghr. LONDON. February 5. (Receive,-! February cV at 13.55 p.m.) At the wool pairs there- wac spinud competition for all ciom l ?. Of New Zen • land' clips. - Pajoningi realised 16d and 15] d ; Whtkapoui, I6d and Usd ; W°stho. 16d and 14,13. AIETAL MARKETS. LONDON, February 3. iR-occived February 6. at 13.55 p.m,l t’upper: Spot, £62 10s:. £62 15.?; three m-'iithe, £62 17? &-1, £63 2? 6d. Tin ; Cash, £176, £176 10». Spelter, £53. £59. PniGE OF BREAD IN LONDON. 7u reviewing the week's operation* in liouv, the, Ixtndon ‘ Miller ’ of December 21 nuWi: “ Tho current price of bread in London and its neighborhood is a distincthandicap to the Hour trade just at present. No change has been made, from the xecont. price, of 6Jd per quartern hy th© leader? of the trade, nor is any advance by them now expected until after the end "of the year. Happily, we c-an report that in many of the districts where undeitse.lhng was recently rife the small men have now gone up to 6|d, ,tlthough w© hear of yet. a good many shops where 6d the iselling figure. (Neither of the?* figures is good enough to make the trad© reasonably reinunwative to the. user who lias to pay to-day’s prices for Hour. It is to be hoped, however, that very soon after the end of tho year—if, indeed, not earlier—f be ,general price will be raised to 7d, and will thus be brought to a. level that will allow the baker a fair return for his trouble and expense in producing the staff of life." Tho price of flour in London at the time .stated was from 53.t 6d to 40s 6d per 2801b. according to quality.