PRICE OF BREAD
NO INCREASE PERMISSIBLE ADJUSTMENT IN FLOUR PRICE MAY BE NECESSARY [Per United Press Association.} AUCKLAND, December 2. To determine whether adjustments in the price of flour will be necessary in order to compensate for the increased costs under which bakers are working, an investigation is being carried out in the baking industry by officers of the Department of Industries and Commerce. This fact was learned to-day when inquiries were made in Auckland as to the truth of a rumour that the price of bread was on the point of being increased. The rumour was found to have no foundation. It is stated that the definite policy of the Government, in whose hands the matter lies, is to avoid increases in the price, and the bakers have been officially advised that there will be no increase. Bakers are anxiously awaiting the result of the investigation, stating that the price of bread to-day was Id per 21b’ loaf lower in the main centres than in 1931, while wage rates are higher.
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Evening Star, Issue 23130, 2 December 1938, Page 8
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172PRICE OF BREAD Evening Star, Issue 23130, 2 December 1938, Page 8
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