PRICE OF WHEAT SACKS
RESULT OF BOARD : OF TRADE INQUIRIES. (By TeLegraph-.-Speoial Correspondent.) ■ Mastarton; March 27. For some tima past the Wairarapa : 'Wheat Committee, have been striving io get the retail price of sacks reduced, and have made representations io the Board of Trade on the subject. Tile: board has replied as foUoys:— ';firms appear to have- sold in instances when they-were importers at about 13s t> per dozen, and it is only in cases where merchants were tho second holders thafi they have asked as high as lus. per dozen. ' Iri'sbmo instances ■ . merchants have had to'send sacks out Into the. country to', thrashing-ma-chines, for :which no charge lias been Vuado. It therefore appeal's to the . board that no undue profits have been, made by merchants in selling sacks."
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 162, 28 March 1918, Page 8
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129PRICE OF WHEAT SACKS Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 162, 28 March 1918, Page 8
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