BREAD AND BUTTER WAR
Battles are being fought on two Wellington retail fronts to-aay,,and the public are benefiting by the conflict, for the time being.'- The Denhard Bakeries, Ltd., announce that from to-day their bread specialties will be reduced, and standard loaves sold over the counter at 4d, small loaves 2id, wrapped or unj wrapped. Special breads will be reduced in price to 6d and 3d. Reductions will also be made in prices of bread for private delivery. Bread" has been a. "cut" line in many grocers' shops for some weeks past. The. official wholesale price of butter in Wellington is lOd per pound net but butter is offering retail at. that price and down to 9a, but even lower prices hare been posted up in some shops. For how long this competition among traders will last it is difficult to say; but it is obviously-helping to make small incomes go further, and in that way relieving the- pressure caused by small, wages or no wages at all. The opinion of some authorities in the bakisg ana provision trades is that this o6«i])etitioa cannot last vary.Jong,
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Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 122, 19 November 1932, Page 12
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186BREAD AND BUTTER WAR Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 122, 19 November 1932, Page 12
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