FRENCH BREAD BILL.
PRICES’ TO GO UP.
Bv Electric Telegraph—Copyright._ Australian-New Association, Received December 20, 8.50 a.m. PARIS, Doc. 18.
The Government has decided _to withdraw the bread subsidy, which is costing £160,000,000. It would have been even higher, but for the favourable contracts in Australia and America, which have now ended. American wheat is costing 100s The Government had been selling this’ to the French bakers at 40s. The price of broad will now be about doubled. The old scheme resulted in a terrible waste of broad, which was sometimes cheaper than potatoes. Agriculturists used bread to feed pigs, chickens and rabbits.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1705, 20 December 1919, Page 5
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