§ 24. Mr. W. B. TAYLORasked the President of the Board of Trade the present price of English wheat per hundredweight paid to the producer and 2097 the present price of flour per hundredweight charged to the consumer in Britain?
§ Mr. W. GRAHAMThe average price of British wheat ruling in the week ended 14th December, as reported by the Inspectors of Corn Returns, was 9s. 6d. per hundredweight; the London price of straight-run flour delivered to bakers, as recorded for 16th December in the London Corn Circular was 38s. 6d. per sack of 280 lbs. (equivalent to 15s. 5d. per hundredweight). The quotations for important provincial centres given in. the issue of "Milling" for 14th December are: Liverpool, 37s.-38s. ex mill; Bristol, 41s.-42s. delivered; Norwich, 41s.; Hull, 38s.-39s.; Newcastle-on-Tyne, 40s.-40s. 6d.; Glasgow, 40s. average price ex quay or store; South Wales, 41s. 6d.-42s. The London prices quoted in this journal were 41s. for town straights and 33s. 6d.-34s. 6d. for country straights, including delivery in each case.