Another Rise in Cement

Progress, Volume XI, Issue 11, 1 July 1916, Page 682

Another Rise in Cement

A second increase in the price of Portland cement since the outbreak of war has been. made by the companies : manufacturing in New Zealand. The first advance, equal to 4s. 6d. per ton, was made a year ago. In his report to the Auckland Harbour Board on Tuesday, the engineer, Mr. W. H. Hamer, stated that the price has now been increased 13.45 per cent., and the cost of all the Board's works will advance accordingly. The present advance is explained by the manufacturers to be due to the general increase in the cost of production, wages having been raised 10 per cent., by the addition of the war bonus, while raw materials and bags are much dearer and the coastal freight rates are higher.