PRICE OF BREAD.
INQUIRY IN BRITAIN. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, Dec. IS. Giving evidence before the Food Prices Commission Sir Herbert Robs' iu . who went to Chicago in 1917 to buy' wheat for the British Government, sa»d inquiries would undoubtedly show that the price of bread in New York, Chicago, Montreal and Toronto was higher than in the United Kindom. It was impossible to “corner” American wheat now as the authorities would intervene, aud no such attempt had been made for twenty years past. He waa decidedly not in favour of Government buying, which was the best way to raise prices.
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 December 1924, Page 8
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101PRICE OF BREAD. Taranaki Daily News, 22 December 1924, Page 8
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