SIXPENCE A LOAF
INCREASED PRICE OF BREAD. Peoplo must accustom themselves to tho idea of bread at 6d. per 21b. loaf or a shilling per quartern (as is usually quoted in bread cablegrams from Kngland). Tho prospective riso from B}cT. to 6d. per loaf has been brought about bv tho Government sanctioning Hie raising of tho price of flour by millere from £15 to £15 10s. per ton, f.o.b. ,\m sacks), in tho south, a price which means £16 10s. in tho bakehouse in Wellington. When nsked yesterday whether tho riso in tho price of flour would menu an increase in the price of bread, MrW H. James, one of Wellington's leading bakers, said that it must mean an increase from sid. to 6d. per loaf. "With flour at £15 f.o.b. in the south," said Mr. James, "we have been working on a very narrow margin of profit in selling bread at s{d. per loaf. Thcro is not Ihe slightest doubt that tho bread will bo advanced as soon as wfi have to pay the extra money for the flour."
An increaeo in the price of bread in Auckland will probably be made at the end of the presont week, says the "Herald." The secretary of the Master Bakers' Association stated that the proposed_ increase was not the result of any increase, or proposed increase, in tho price of flour. Tho bakers • had been working on a very slight margin for the last year, and the margin had now become reduced to vanishing point as a result of all-round increaees in working expenses. The increßSo had been borne by tho bakers as long as possible, but they wero now compelled to pase on to tho public a fair proportion of tho extra cost of production and distribution.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 151, 15 March 1918, Page 4
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297SIXPENCE A LOAF Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 151, 15 March 1918, Page 4
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