FLOUR PRICES.
i INCREASE IN ENGLAND. SPECULATION ALLEGED. / BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT LONDON, Julj; 22. The question of an increase in the price of bread and flour, in which, connection allegations relating to a wheat [' corner have been made by a section of • the press, was raised in the Commons by Sir H. Kingsley Wood, replying to whom Air Webb suggested that the advance in the.world’s prices of flour might be attributable to the unfavourable harvest prospects in Canada and the United States, Sir Kingsley Wood pointed out that the price in London of flour had been raised Is to-day, and suggested that the operations of speculators were causing the increase in price. Air P. J. H. Hannan (Conservative) suggested that the speculation occurred in America. Air Webb said he had no knowledge of speculation on either side of the Atlantic, but when there was apprehension of a scarcity there was always a certain amount of speculation.—Reuter.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 24 July 1924, Page 5
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