SHORTAGE IN WHEAT
SiCABLE NEWS
(United Press Association — By Electric Telegraph — Copyright.)
CAUSES APPREHENSION IN FRANCE
PRICE OF BREAD RISING
(Received Last Night, 10.55 o'clock.)
LONDON, May 9.
Reuters Paris correspondent reports that the present stock of wheat only amounts, to 44,000,000 kilogrammes, insstead of t'he normal several hundred million, s
The price of bread is rising, and is causing some apprehension. Large orders for grain Ihave been placed in Canada, Argentine, and Australia.
The Government has decided that it cannot suspend the tariff of seven francs per hundred kilogrammes, although it may prolong for two or three month's, the period during which wheat may be imported free on the condition that an equivalent weight is exported from France.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10632, 10 May 1912, Page 5
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