COSTLY FLOUR

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2339, 22 December 1914, Page 7

COSTLY FLOUR

AFFECTS LOCAL PASTRY-COOKS. The high ruling price for flour, which has forced the price of bread up to 4Jd. per loaf as from yesterday, is going to affect local pastry-cooks, who so far have not attempted to alter prices or interfere in anv way with standard weights for small goods. One prominent pastry-cook informed a Dominion reporter yesterday that at the rate flour was obtainable now (£l6 per tou in tho bakehouse), together with the substantial jump m prices of other goods essential to tho trade, thore was no margin of profit at all, but notwithstanding that he said he did not intond to malio any alterations in his priccs until after the holidays. In order to illustrate the general rise that had taken place in necessary lineß our informant quoted the prices ruling a year ago, and those that were being charged to-day. A fow of the lines wore as follow:— 1913. 1914. Flour £10 ton £16 Almonds Is. lb. Is. 9d. Cherries (glace) .. Hid. lb. Is. 9d. Sugar £14 ton £20]0s. Currants 4sd. lb. 6d. Sultanas ■ od. lb. 6}d. Icing sugar 245. owt. 365. Paying the prices of to-day it was a matter of impossibility to make any profit over and above working expenses, and a. revision would have to be made early in the New_ Year if there was no alteration made in the meantime.