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A WHEAT SCARCITY. BUTTER STILL RISING IN PRICE. Received April 12, !).15 p.m. Sydney, April 12. A loading miller informed the Commodities Commission that there is only sufficient wheat in New South Wales to supply the State's needs til] November. The commission recommended that the price of butter be fixed so as to allow retailers a profit of twopence per pound cash, and 2Jd hooked. This will involve a further increase to the consumer. Melbourne, April 12. An increase of the wholesale price of butter to Is 5d is sanctioned . NOT WANTED. Sydney, April 12. A publican named Peter Links applied for the transfer of a hotel licence at Cowra, which was refused. It transpired that the police objected on the ground that he was a German subject recently naturalised. Fe had been' in Germany before and during the war. whence he wrote a disloyal letter. Since his return he had adversely commented on the war. He was therefore an undesirable licensee.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 260, 13 April 1915, Page 5
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163Australia. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 260, 13 April 1915, Page 5
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