WHITE PEPPER AT £2000 A TON
AUCKLAND, This Day (P.A.).— The forecast that white pepper will be in far shorter supply in the coming months was made today by the president of the Auckland Provincial Merchants’ Association, Mr J. P. McLean. The wholesale price of the whole of White pepper landed here, excluding duty and wharf charges, has increased to about £2OOO a ton. Mr McLean Said that merchants refused to import pepper from Singapore and Malaya at the present price because they believed the public would not pay the high retail price for it. The wholesale price had so increased that only American importers were still buying. .Before Jhe war a two-ounce tin sold at 6d. Today, if procurable, it cost retail Is lOd,
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Greymouth Evening Star, 29 November 1949, Page 4
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