PRICE OF FLOUR.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIV, Issue 14040, 24 April 1920, Page 3

PRICE OF FLOUR.

(Far Trass Association.) WELLINGTON, April 23. Some weeks si go there was published in the Gazette a notice* regarding the price or" flour, which was not easily intelligible. It ap*i)eare<l that the f.o.b. price was to be £l6 10s at southern, ports, and that iu other parts of the country the price was to be this rate of £l6 10s, plus; other charges incurred in bringing, the Hour to the place of ultimate sale to the- breadnmiser. But in the notice there was mention of a rata of £lB per ton for Hour for certain places, and the rate was to bo increased, as per the notice, by the charges abovementioned. In the special notice of Thursday in the GaKetto this quota of £lB per ton is cancelled. The rata is , now fixed at £lO 10s per ton, audi iu ,lho case of the ports distant froin tho .wheat ports of the Booth Island tha 'rate is to be £lO U)s with the addition 'of the eosts of hrinjiiiiK the- flour to |t4u)s«i places, A member of the Boajed 'of Trade"; when askod for an explanwition of ilw point, said that the first 'riotieo had hw.iv published in error, and j that. Hie notice of this week's was merely n eovrociion of, the orror previouslyniadtv