NO PROFITS.
IN BREAD-MAKING
DUNEDIN, March 12
At the Master Bakers’ Conference, Mr. W. R. an address to demonstrate that the New Zealand bakers were not making enormous profits as compared with the world parity, 'v Taking the last-given figures on the prices of bread—Wellington 7d, London 4-gd, Sydney.s|d, Melbourne old—he stated that, on a Basis of striking the medium of the parity, this made the New Zealand price 64, hut the' conditions were not akin. The Home prices were not really small. Wages here were double all round, while one ton of flour in England meant 22401b5., as against 20001bs. here. Large plants were the cause of the prices in England, and the output there was 53 sacks of 2801bs. each, per man, per week, or nearly five times as much as here. „
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Thames Star, Volume LIX, Issue 16736, 12 March 1926, Page 5
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