SHORTAGE OF WHEAT.
SEHIOUS POSITION IN FRANCE
PRICE OF BREAD RISING
by cable—pbess association—copyright.
LONDON, May 9. Router's Paris correspondent reports that the present stock of wheat is 44.000,000 kilogrammes, instead of the normal several hundred millions. The price of bread is rising, and is causing apprehension. Large orders for grain have been placed in Canada, the Argentine and Australia. The Government has decided that it cannot suspend the tariff of seven francs per hundred kilogrammes, although it may prolong for two or three months the period wherein wheat may be imported free, a condition equivalent to the weight exported from France.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXII, 10 May 1912, Page 8
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102SHORTAGE OF WHEAT. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXII, 10 May 1912, Page 8
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