THE PRICE OF GROCERIES.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 67, 19 March 1915, Page 3

THE PRICE OF GROCERIES.

do tb» Editor.) Sir, —I have read your interesting and amusing article in last night's "Star" on the rise in prices, and your reporter's account of his interview with a grocer. 1 do not think it requires much common sense on the part of your readers to understand that a considerably rise must take place on all imported goods, owing to increased first cost, increased freight, insurance, and exchange. I enclose a circular rpcelved this morning from a well known London house dealing in grocers' lines. Almost every line mentioned in this circular sliowb a very substantial rise in price. In fact, some lines, macaroni and vermicelli, are quoted at a higher price in London than the same lint's are being sold at to-day in Auckland. Of one thing, however. the public may be sure, and that is that there is sufficient competition in the grocery business to prevent anyone making unduly large profits out of the public. In another part of last night's issue, in your report on the flour market, you say that the baker who pays in a month gets 25 per cent, off his price. Most grocers and takers would like to discover a miller who gave ."> per cent, off today, much less 25 per cent.—l am. etc., GROCER.