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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 3, Issue 227, 4 September 1914, Page 4

There is no likelihoo 1 of i further , advance in the pi ice of Hour in j Auckland, according to statements | made by the manager of the i Northern Roller Milling Company, ' Mr F. Virtue, yesterday. Mr j Viitue supplied the following list of pi ices now current 2001b sicks, £l2 per ton : 1001b bags, £l-' 7s Od per ton : oOlb bag l , £1- 12s 'id per ton ; '2Mb big->, £l2 17s t'ul per ton : | 12.1 lb bags, £ 1 ■'! 2.s Hd per ton : C'Jlb bags, £1 o 7s fid per ton, each price being subject to a discjunt of 2.1 per cent. It was pointed out by Mr Viitue that the bakers had agreed at the Arbitration Court a lew years ago not to charge more than <VI per j 41b loaf of bread with the price of | Hour at from £ll to £l2 10s per ton. The prices quoted by Mr Virtue are about los higher than those ruling in July. Farmers throughout South Canterbury (sav the '' Timaru Herald, ' of last'weck) are still anxiously looking for the rain which often threatens but does not come. The wintersown crops are now showing well above ground, and though thf>y can hardly be said to ha\e sull'ereel much yet fro in the long-continued dry spell, they would be all the bet'er 1 r a good rain. The ground is now very drv, and the subsoil would be all the better for a good soaking before the summer sets in. Some fields wlr.ch are being ploughed now are turning up all right, but in others the soil is caked and turns up in great clods which will tako a lot I of woiking before seed can be sown, i The pastures also s' aul in need of rain now. At tinny homesteads iu lhe country the supply of water has run short, and carting this indispensable commodity ha- had to be resetted to.