FRENCH BREAD SUBSIDY.
TO BE WITHDRAWN. (Received 9.15 a.m.) PARIS Dec. 18. The Government has decided to withdraw the bread subsidy, which is costing 160 million sterling. It would have been even higher, but for favourable contracts in Australia and America, which have now ended. American wheat wa s costing 100/----and the Government has Ib'een selling to the French bakers at 40/.
The price of bread will now be about doubled.
The old scheme resulted in a terrible waste of bread, which was sometimes cheaper than potatoes. Agriculturists used bread to feed pigs, chickens, and rabbits. —A. and N.Z.
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Northern Advocate, 20 December 1919, Page 5
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