SUGAR FOR FARMERS
BAN ON BULK BUYING MARKED EFFECT ON PRICE. CHRISTCHURCH, Oct. 28. Concern at what they regard as a big increase in the price they have to pay for sugar—not because of an authorised price increase, but because buying in bulk has been forbidden has been expressed by members of the North Canterbury district executive of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union. The executive has decided now to take the position up with the Government.
Members of the executive have expressed the view that the ban on bulk buying of sugar hits farmers severely. A farmer has now to pay about 25s for the quantity he used to get for about 18s. Most farmers, especially those some distance from stores, have always been ih the habit of buying sugar by the bag. Now they are restricted to buying a few pounds each week. The executive claims that farmers do not hoard sugar. Jams and preserves, they claim, play a big part in farm economy, and with bulk buying restricted, the cost of them will be greatly increased. The same effect will be felt, it is stated, by city housewives who usually buy bulk lots of sugar for preserves.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 257, 31 October 1939, Page 5
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