§ 10. Mr. R. MORRISONasked the President of the Board of Trade whether there has been any practical result from the correspondence which has passed recently between the Food Council and the Newport Master Bakers' Association with reference to an allegation that supplies of flour had been withheld from a retailer by two milling firms because he was selling bread at 7½d. per 4 1b. loaf, a price lower than that recommended by the association?
§ Mr. H. WILLIAMSThe result has been that the Newport Master Bakers' Association have announced that, although the price of flour has advanced 4s. per sack, equivalent to ½d. per quartern on bread, the present price, 8½d., will not be advanced until a further rise in the price of flour takes place. Thus the Newport Association's price is now the same as the recognised price in London, although for over a year preceding the Food Council's recent statement in the Press, it had been from ½d. to 1½d. above the London price. In addition, the retailer referred to in the question states that he has been making increased sales in consequence of the publicity occasioned by the Food Council.