§ 6. Mr. HANNONasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty if he is aware that the cost of bread baked in the Navy victualling yard at Malta was equivalent in 1922–23 to 1s. 0½d. per quartern loaf; and whether this high cost was due to any special local circumstances?
§ Mr. AMMONThe high cost of the bread baked during the year mentioned was due to the fact that the victualling yard was using up reserves of wheat purchased at a time when prices were considerably higher than those ruling when the wheat was milled. The wheat is valued out in the costings accounts at its actual cost.