BAKERS' PROFITS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LVII, Issue 8778, 8 June 1907, Page 2

BAKERS' PROFITS.

The Otago Daily Times gives the following estimate: — The Net Return, Shop Trade of (5 tons of flour, producing at the least 700 41b loaves to the ton, sold at (id per 41b loaf, given before Parliament by Mr Williams, in. 11)03 :— (i tons, each ton producing 700 41b loaves, equal to 4200 41b loaves, at 6d ..£lO5 0 0 Taking Mr Williams's figures as the basis of calculation and applying it to existing conditions in Dunedin, taday, we obtain the following result :— Net cost of manufacturing and delivering 1 ton of flour iuto 41b loaves .. £ 4 :5 1 Net cost of 1 ton flour—£ll OS, less 'l\4> per cent .. 10 1(5 2 £14 IV^Q Gross profit on 1 ton flour made into 680 41b loaves and sold at 7d .. .. £IV> l<s 8 Net profit on every ton of flour £4 17 3 Taking the case of a baker who takes from 20 to 25 tons of flour per month, this would give a clear profit of £l per month, or over £1000 per auutmi/,'^ 1 This then, constitutes one side o| the situation, and shows that bre;W& baking as at present carried on in Dunedin is an exceedingly profitable business. On the other side it is contended that discounts to stores and boarding houses, bad debts, etc., make the estimate of present cost altogether unreliable.

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