DOMINION'S BREAD PRICES.
NO ENORMOUS PROFITS. COMPARISON WITH OVERSEAS. [BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] , DUNEDIN. Thursday. At the Master Bakors* Conference, Mr, W. R. Andrews delivered an address to demonstrate that the New Zealand bakers were not making enormous profits as compared with the world parity. Taking the last-given figures on the prices of bread, Wellington 7d, London 4Jjd, Sydney sfd, Melbourne sid, he stated that, on a basis of striking the medium, of; the parity, this made th<? New Zealand price 6>,d, but the conditions were not akin. The Home prices were not really small. Wages here were double all round, while one ton of flour in England meant 22401b., as against 20001b. here. Large plants were the cause of the prices in England and: the output, there >was 53 sacks of 2801b..each, per man, per week, or;.nearly five times as much as here. • . ' •
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19274, 12 March 1926, Page 12
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144DOMINION'S BREAD PRICES. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19274, 12 March 1926, Page 12
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