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figures in October, 1915, were 4s. 7d. and 13 10s. 

 Furthermore, the Board of Trade, after careful con- 

 sideration of the question, recommended in June, 1916, 

 that the price of flour should be 11 15s. per ton, when 

 the price of wheat was 4s. 6d. to 4s. 9d. per bushel. 



The following table giving the prices of wheat and 

 flour from January, 1914, to May, 1916, is taken from 

 The Report of the Board of Trade on the Prices of 

 Wheat, Flour, etc., in June, 1916. 



TABLE XXXVII. 



Monthly Prices of Wheat and Flour from January, 1914, to 

 May, 1916. 



Prices continued to fall slowly until October, 1916, 

 when a strike in Australia and the possibility of a wheat 

 shortage in New Zealand altered the position, so that 

 by the end of November the prices of wheat and flour 

 were as high as 6s. 6d. per bushel and 15 per ton 

 respectively. The question of controlling prices was 

 again raised, but this time the Government had some 

 machinery to deal with the position. The Board of 

 Trade set up in March, 1915, had been considering the 



