PRICE OF BREAD.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 199, 24 July 1931, Page 5

PRICE OF BREAD.

j (To the Editor.) Sir, —That the associated bread bakers of Palmerston North have raised the price of bread 33 1-3 per cent, without the slightest warning is a surprise. One feels certain there is nothing to warrant the sudden abnormal rise in the price of bread. Expenses are being cut down on every hand with a view of reducing the high cost of living. If the master bakers find that they cannot carry on, on last week’s prices, they, could shut down and sit tight until they persuade the present Government to remove the iniquitous import duty of £lO 10s per ton on all Australian flour. It has been stated that the amount of flour manufactured in New Zealand is 140.000 tons per annum for local consumption. Let this amount in duty free. On present Australian prices it would mean a saving to the consumers of this Dominion of approximately £1,500.000 annually, sufficient to pay all the wheat growers in this country a handsome'bonus to walk about with their hands in their pockets, and then we would have a £1,000,000 to spare.— I am, etc., TREE TRADE.