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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. 
Wheat Flour Wheat Flour 
at in at in 
Mill Trucks Mill Trucks 
1914 s. d. |£ 3s. da. 1915 s. d. |£ s. a 
January ....| 4 54 {10 5 O/|| April 7 84 (16 5 0 
February ...| 4 Of {10 5 O]] May 7 2 16 5 0 
March 41 10 5 O|] June 7 4 16 5 0 
April 4 14 110 5 O} July 7 6 167 6 
May 4 8 11 O O|| August 7 52 ;15 7 6 
June 4 4% {11 O O|| September 7 64 |1412 6 
July 4 4% |11 O O}|| October 4 7 13 10 0 
August ...) 4 4% {1114 O}/ November...| 4 11 13 5 0 
September... 4 112 |12 5 Oj! December...) 5 4 13 5 0 
October .| 5 382 11217 6 
November...) 5 9 13 9 0 1916 
December ...| 6 5 138 17 6|| January ...| 6 0 1317 6 
1915 February .... 6 1 1317 6 
January . 6 7 14 7 6|| March 5 6 138 5 0 
February ...| 7 02 |16 5 0} April 5 62 |13 5 0 
March 7 2% 116 5 O|| May 5 2 113 8 O 
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 
