PRICE OF FLOUR.
FORECAST OF £15 10s PER TON. [BY TELEGRAPH.— CORRESPONDENT.] WELLINGTON. Monday The Minister for Agriculture, the Hon. W. D. S. Mac Donald, and the members of the Board of Trade, leave for Christchurch to-night to meet the Flour Millers' Committee to discuss with them the price that is to bo allowed for flour from the wheat crop just saved. It is expected that the price that will have to be agreed upon will be £15 10s per ton. The increase in the price of flour Of 10s per ton is not expected necessarily to increase the price of the loaf, as the millers claim that tho bakers have lately been in a good position as middlemen between the millers and the consumers,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16796, 12 March 1918, Page 4
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