FRENCH BREAD SUBSIDY.
PAYMENT TO BE DISCONTINUED
fAustralian and N.Z. Cable Association)
Paris, Dec. 18
The Government has decided to withdraw the bread subsidy, which is costing £160,000,000. Itowould have boon oven higher but for the favourable contracts in Australia and America, which are now ended. American wheat costing 100s the Government had been selling to French bakers at 40s. The price of bread will now be about doubled. The old scheme resulted in a terrible waste of bread,which was sametimes cheaper than potatoes. Agriculturists used bread to feed pigs, chickens and rabbits.
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Colonist, Volume LXII, Issue 15259, 22 December 1919, Page 5
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FRENCH BREAD SUBSIDY.
Colonist, Volume LXII, Issue 15259, 22 December 1919, Page 5
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