FOODSTUFFS IN N.S. WALES
SYDNEY, June 15. The Commodities Commission has refused the bakers’ application to increase the price of bread from 4d to per 21b loaf. The Northern District butter producers are asking the Commodities Board to increase the price of butter by at least 6d per lb, as the present fixed prices leave the farmers’ earnings below the union rates.
June 18. A Proclamation has fixed the following wholesale prices:—Cumberland and Northumberland bran, £8 10s; and pollard £9 per ton; elsewhere, bran 50s, pollard 60s. These were the local prices obtaining on September 10. Butter (boxed), first grade, 149 s 4d; second grade, 144 s 4d; third grade, 139 s 4d; retail, 2d per lb above wholesale price.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3197, 23 June 1915, Page 16
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120FOODSTUFFS IN N.S. WALES Otago Witness, Issue 3197, 23 June 1915, Page 16
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