The Price of Bread Last Sunday Miss Beatrice Drapper, of
Bermondsey, wrote to Sir Allan Powell to draw his attention to the action of the bakers in raising the price of the quartem loaf from 8d. to 80., when there is a slump in wheat. This action is not in accordance with the sliding scale, approved by the Food Council, relating bread prices to the current price of flour. We have not yet heard the bakers' answer. We cannot help thinking, however, that the rise in price is, to say the least of it, impolitic at a time when the Government are proposing to substitute a Consumers' Council for the present body. It may also be asked why the Food Council, having had, we are assured, all the facts connected with the increase before it " for some time," did not take action before the rise was announced. * *
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