THE SUGAR MARKET.
WEEK'S SUPPLY FOR TARANAKI. SEW PRICES IN FORCE. Forty tons of sugar, representing about a week's supply for Taranaki, was brought to New Plymouth yesterday by the Rimu from Auckland. Tho shipment will be welcomed by storekeepers throughout the province, for there have been no imports for nearly a fortnight, and supplies were exhausted. This shipment is the first of the *'new" sugar to reach Taranaki, so that it will be sold to-day at the new price of Cd per lb cash and flid booked or delivered, against the old price of 3Vid. A New Plymouth retail merchant Itated last night that enquiries yesterday, for sugar indicated that the demand, for sugar under the new price will equal that under the old price. A Press Association message received from Christchurch last night, says that tho chairman of the Board of Trade has, fixed the retail price of "new" augat for Canterbury at fijd over all, Previously it was proposed to charge 6d over the counter and OJd booked or delivered, but the new arrangement makes a flat rate of <i%d, subject to the usual discount.
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Taranaki Daily News, 14 July 1920, Page 4
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188THE SUGAR MARKET. Taranaki Daily News, 14 July 1920, Page 4
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