Although so much flour has been imported! by various vessels, witbin the last few weeks, the price of bread is still maintained ati high rate, and one quite disproportioned ta| the price of the flour. While flour is soli at from £l6 to £lB per ton, sd. is charged for the 21b. loaf, although about this time last year only 4d. was charged for the 21b. loaf, when the price of flour varied from £lB to £2O per ton. With the present low price of flour and with the contract fa supplying the troops at 3|d. per 21b. loaf we see no reason why the public should be made to pay sd. per loaf for their bread-
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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 589, 26 March 1851, Page 2
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