RISE IN FOOD PRICES
MAXIMUM PRICES LAW URGED - London, February 9. ; The "Economist," in discussing the, rise in food prices, says it is bound to reach the highest point reached for forty-threo years. The purchasing power of wages has'fallen 7 per cent, in one month. Many farmers continue to hold wheat, and the blockade threat is, being used to hoist prices. Unless there is some improvement in the position, the Government will be driven to tako over 6taple foodstuffs or TC-enact the maximum prices in order to save the poorer classes from widespread suffering.
THE PRICE OF BREAD. , RAISED IN ENGLAND. (Rec. February 10, 5.5 p.m.) I .' London, February 9. ' The price of the quartern loaf has been raised to Bd.—"Times" anod Sydney "Sun" services. TENPENCE FOR A LOAF. MELBOURNE PRICES. (Rec. February 10, 9 p.m.) Melbourne, February 10. . The Commodities Board has decided in view of the high prices for flour that ninepence per loaf in the inner suburbs and tenpence in ,the outer aro not unfair prices for bread. . . . , The Board has fixed tho maximum wholesale prices for apricot and gooseberry jams at Bs. 3d., mixed apricot and pineapple at 83. 6d., and plum at 7s. 3d. per dozen two-pound tins.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2382, 11 February 1915, Page 8
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203RISE IN FOOD PRICES Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2382, 11 February 1915, Page 8
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