BRITISH BREAD PRICES.
LOWER THAN IN AMERICA.
WHEAT CORNER IMPOSSIBLE.
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i (Reed. 5.5 p.m.) LONDON. De*:. it. I (iiving evidence before the commission j inquiring into the cost of foodstuffs, Sir ! Herbert Ilobson. who went to Chicago in | 1317 to buy wheat for the British Govi rrunient, sad inquiries won In" undoubtedly ! .show that tile price or bread in New ; Yoik, Chicago, Montreal and Toronto was higher thai: that in the United Kingdom. It was impossible to corner wheat in America now, as the authorities would ! intervene. Such an attempt had not been made lor 20 years. lit l was decidedly against buying by the Government, which was the best way to raise pi ice i.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18896, 19 December 1924, Page 11
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