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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 2056, 26 May 1896, Page 3

«.« Sir, —The letter from Mr Charles Lees, which you print in your to-day's issue, fails entirely to meet the point raised in your reporter's remarks. He stated that Ihe relative prices of ihe exhibits of tbe Seed Company and my own were as follows : —Cowgrass 112* an I 655, white clover 180.' and 84s, Alsyke 112s and 7'ss. Ai any competition. Ah» price at wheh an article Citt be sold is of the first impf.rtnnce. Tbe prirvs quoted by me were ihe commercial values of Hie seed in the open market, and tit which 1 am prepared to seli. Mr Lee-: will not sureiv-contend th:>t noy one would i.t tb" prf'sent Umo'be to «ivelßos lor white no matter bow we'd it was grown and dre*.-ed. Ha', the j bilges be"ii aware of ihe prices put no'.o Mr L'.-c-i' eshiblts, U ( ey »ou!d probabA' come to a different decision. I 'ruiy competed in clovers ami timothy, showintr s?cwt ench, while lha -Canterbury Seel Company's " bnbey " c-xhibits were _61b each. — Yours, A.c, Gko. G Stkad, Per D. B McLaren"