CONDITIONS IN CHRISTCHURCH.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 151, 1 August 1914, Page 11

CONDITIONS IN CHRISTCHURCH.

FLOUR ADVANCED. BREAD NO DEARER. The flourmillers have announced a rise in the price of flour of £1 per tow. The prices now current are as follow: Sacks £ll per ton, 1001b bags £ll 10/,, 301b bags £ll 13/-, 251b bags £l2. The necessity for the increase in price is accredited to the new conditions created by the war scare. The millers claim that wheat can not be purchased and made into flour at £lO per ton. '' In fact,'' said a representative of the millers to a SUNman, "I doubt whether you could buy wheat and make flour at £ll per ton to-day. The local market would be governed entirely by >oversea conditions in regard to future ad\an<_es," he added. Questioned as to what effect the rise would have upon the price of bread a prominent local baker said that a* rise would not take place at present. If flourgoes up another 10/- person, the bakefs would be forced to raise the j price of the 41b loaf by 3d. No one in the trade would be at all surprised to receive an announcement of another advance within a week or so.