FLOUR SHORTAGE.
MR MASSEY’S ASSURANCE. Mr George Witty, M.P., in reply to Ins telegram regarding the inability of storekeepers to obtain suplies of flour, has received the following telegram from the Prime Minister; Further to your telegram ro flour, have instructed Wheat Controller to take steps to see that ordinary norplied requirement 3 ot trade are supMr Witty has drawn attention to the tact that whereas New Zealand millers only take <0 per cent of flour from the wheat. English millers are obliged to take 80 per cent. He admits that the English flour is not so fine, but he maintains that the savin c should he insisted on in New Zealand in the interests of economy.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19863, 4 February 1920, Page 8
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117FLOUR SHORTAGE. Star (Christchurch), Issue 19863, 4 February 1920, Page 8
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