FIXED SUGAR PRICE
FEELING IN WELLINGTON - CONTENTIONS BY RETAILERS [by telegraph —PRESS, association] WELLINGTON; Thursday An advance of £3 16s a ton in price of sugar was notified to wholesalers in Wellington on Monday, but, in accordance- with the Government' 5 statement, the price to the public-is to remain at 4d a pound. Retailers intend that 4d a pound does not allow them a margin of profit sufficient o cover overhead- costs, and a nieetui? o all sections of the trade,, including e Master Grocers' Association <iud c ''^. in store companies, was called to 1S cuss the position. One grocer said, t a 4Jcl a pound was the P" ce *' which retailers could afford ftj. ban sugar. , The meeting decided to send a « e P tation to wait on the Minister o fj dustries and Commerce, the Hon. • G. Sullivan, and place before him serious position facing the grocers the Dominion if they are not allov»e pass on to the public at least P°r 1 of the increase in the wholesale prico-
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23482, 20 October 1939, Page 8
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