“ GOING UP "

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10560, 10 April 1920, Page 7

“ GOING UP "

PRICE OF JAM INCREASED. After due consideration, and examination of manufacturing cost*, together with landed costa of materials, the board of Trade has granted permit won to advance the price of jam and marmalade. The previous increase w-as in January, the fim for two years, end that, was due chiefly to the two increases in the price of sugar. The Principal cause of tho present advance ij staled to be the high cost of tinplates, which; besides being extreme* lv difficult to obtain, now cost over 30s per box in sicsm of but Jam»* > •rates, and tho market la still advancing. Tin and load are about 73 per rent, over last year’s price. Labels have just been increased by 23 per tent., while coal is up 10s per ton, pnd it l\ almost as. hard to' obtain •* Sugar. Wages also show a decided in-prear-B. Glass jars, it is stated, coat considerably more to land, and, owing to strikes in ,Australia, have been unobtainable lately. “All These extra costs,” a manufoturer said, “mean in the aggregate a very large sum to us. and we arc compelled, in order tq meet these extra manufacturing expenses, to advance tha price of all (am and marmalade.**