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Economic History: Industries in the 1920s and 1930s: Government Resources: Library Guide: Wheat, milling, baking, flour

Economic History Research Project.

In Library of Parliament

South Africa. Board of Trade and Industries report no. 12, on wheat and flour (Annexure 332-1923)

South Africa. Board of Trade and Industries report no. 43, on rise in the price of bread (Annexure 59-1925)

South Africa. Board of Trade and Industries report no. 78, on bread prices and costs of baking and distribution of bread (Annexure 473-1927)

South Africa. Board of Trade and Industries report no. 113, on dumping of flour (Annexure 275-1931)

South Africa. Board of Trade and Industries report no. 217, on importation of certain types of wheat and flour (Annexure 569-1937)

Wage Board

Recommendation to the Honourable the Minister of Labour by the Wage Board: Baking Industry. Government gazette no. 1582 (30 Sept. 1926), Government notice no. 1726, p. 691-696. G 68 G

Determination No. 13, Baking and confectionary industries in certain magisterial districts. SA Government gazette no. 1705 (18 May 1928), Government notice no. 825, p. 366-370. G 68 G

Determination No. 20, Baking and confectionary industries in the magisterial districts of Kimberley, East London and Bloemfontein. SA Government gazette no. 1727 (14 Sept. 1928), Government notice no. 1551, p. 515-518. G 68 G

Baking and confectionary industry employment statistics and wages In: The Work of the Wage Board: report to the Honourable the Minister of Labour by the Wage Board upon the work of the Board for the three years ended 28th February 1929. G 68 JL1 no. 1/1929 (Use contents and index)

Board of Trade and Industry reports

South Africa. Board of Trade and Industries. Report on the inquiry into the methods and costs of wheat growing and milling. Cape Town : Cape Times Ltd, Government Printer, 1926. G 68 JBT1 67 (1 copy)

South Africa. Board of Trade and Industries. Inquiry into the relationship between the prices of wheat,flour, meal and bread. Cape Town : [Board of Trade and Industries,] 1939. G 68 JBT1 255 (2 copies)

South Africa. Board of Trade and Industries. Wheat milling costs. [Pretoria : Govt. Printer], 1941. G 68 EUG 22/41 (2 copies)

South Africa. Board of Trade and Industries. Customs duties on wheat and flour. Pretoria : Govt. Printer, 1930. G 68 JBT1 104 (1 copy)

South Africa. Board of Trade and Industries. Regulation of the importation of wheat. Pretoria : Govt. Printer, 1930. G 68 JBT1 105 (1 copy)

Legislation

South Africa. Flour and Meal Importation Restriction Act 14 of 1931 G 68 FLA 1931

Journal articles

South Africa. Board of Trade and Industries. The rise in the price of bread : inquiry by the Board of Trade and Industries. The South African journal of industries, Vol. VIII, no. 4 (April 1925), p. 241-248 G 68 K.INDU

The Wheat position in the Union : the late Board of Trade’s survey and recommendations to the Government, pt. I. The South African journal of industries, Vol. VIII, no. 10 (Oct. 1925), p. 614-622. G 68 K.INDU

The Wheat position in the Union : the late Board of Trade’s survey and recommendations to the Government, pt. II. The South African journal of industries, Vol. VIII, no. 11 (Nov. 1925), p. 697-703. G 68 K.INDU

Statistics

South Africa. Office of Census and Statistics. Report on bakeries and biscuit factories, 1915-16 to 1922-23. Pretoria :Office of Census and Statistics, 1925. G 68 A.BAKE.25.REPO