HOUSEHOLD SUPPLIES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 7 August 1926, Page 5

HOUSEHOLD SUPPLIES.

PROSPECTS FORI COMING MONTH

The only possibility of a change in prices of household commodities during the coming month seems to be in the direction of .bread, which may advance Id a. large loaf. Last month the price of flour w.a.s £lB .south, and at (present it is £l9. A local baker informed .a Star, representative that the supply of New Zealand wheat was insufficient to last out the twelve months In previous years Australian wheat .had been ground in the Dominion. 'lbis year the baker interviewed had been supplied by the millers with Austra-lian-ground flour, there being none other available. The increased price arises, however, from sympathy with, a rise in the world’s chief markets, local trade conditions’ having little effect upon it. Meat should hold, about ihe present level. The tendency oIF the market is to appreciate, due to the casual operation of outside buyers in South Taranaki, bub the advance will be within the butcher’s capacity to. control without passing any increase on to the consumer.

•Fish still holds its winter price, a drop of id per lb not being due for a couple of months yet. The fruit iseason it at its off-period. All stocks are drawn from cool stores, the charges of which are. passed on to the counter. Both New Zealand nips and Island citrus m,ay be expected to at least maintain their present prices for some time to come. [Groceries are stationary.