FLOUR PRICES
NO RISE LIKELY THIS YEAR
The, ActingrPrcsidcnt of the Board of Trade (the Hon." W. D. S. MacDonald) stated emphatically 'yesterday that there was no truth in tho widespread rumour that the price of flour, owing to tho Government’s purchase of Australian wheat would ho raised £2 per ton. As a matter of ’.'act. said the. Minister, the millers, by arrangement with the Board of- Trade, had agreed not to ask for an increase in tho present price of flour—£ls 10s southern ports—until February Ist, 1919, so long ns wheat prices remained at the current gazetted rates. The price of flour would not bo affected by the Australian wheat now imported, as it was bein;; sold to the millers on tho same price basis as Now Zealand-grown wheat.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 10063, 30 August 1918, Page 5
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130FLOUR PRICES New Zealand Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 10063, 30 August 1918, Page 5
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