POLITICAL JOTTINGS
STEAMER SUBSIDIES. Figuring on the Estimates before the House were two items relating to subsidies of Cl 11,000 and €12.500, respeetivelv. for the steamer services between New Zealand and Vancouver, and New Zealand and San Francisco. Mr 1!. .Masters (Stratford) asked the Minister if the trade between the Dominion and these countries warranted the subsidies. The Minister replied! that the trade figures on the routes , affected wore remarkably good, and fully justified the expenditure estimated to make. PRICE OF BREAD. Tt has been found alter a full investigation of the whole position, from the time the wheat is planted till the bread is made, that the price of bread charged throughout the Dominion is a fair one. This was declared to be the ease by the Minister of Industries and Commerce (the Hon. G. J. Anderson) when replying to a question in the
Mouse. The whole matter of everythin}; produced and sold in Xew Zealand was being cone into, with a view to discovering if anything was an overctiarge on the country.
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 September 1925, Page 3
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