SHORTAGE OF FLOUR
ONLY A WEEK'S SUPPLY IN WELLINGTON. The stoppage of all work on the waterfront is going to have a very serious effect on food supplies for Wellington, if continued very much longer. A leading Hour merchant of Wellington informed a Dominion reporter yesterday that as tho waterside workers were not handling sea-borne cargo the southern millers were not forwarding ordered supplies. Personally, his firm was right out of flour, and he had already had to buy flour to supply some of his customers. "I do not think," said our informant, "that there is a week's supply of flour in Wellington at the present time, and if the watersiders do not resume work in a day or two they will find themselves without bread to eat,"
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 47, 20 November 1918, Page 4
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128SHORTAGE OF FLOUR Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 47, 20 November 1918, Page 4
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