THE POOR CONSUMER.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 78, 2 April 1928, Page 6

THE POOR CONSUMER.

MINISTERS AMD THE PR, CE 0 E (To the Editor.) When the Minister of and Commerce tells wheat <T- ow . r !' a rise, and the -Minister of w£?.u° ho!d f °r to , a J, 0 ™ 1 "urplus of wheat "Sir" P*®* nate, m that millers, instead nfi ""'wtn. to "toe the line," will now b?"ab perhaps the still small voice of 5°. bu Wn," the consumer, will be heard in th *i .. Joneß > the miller "toeing the For price for wheat; but the miller h£ t Wgller his profit, so he passes the rise on £ th **• of the peonle. If he is "able to S* wheat tends to fall and the consn™.,.^! B *'"* he New Zealand protection in order that he mini,* RlVea enough for the country's needs at % r P rodue a price If h. grou-, than tfe ments of the countrv, the re<}Ulrehenetit. Protection was not <nven in 6 \i the price of wheat, and consul,entlv°t!T of bread, should in all circumstances j! l"* pegged up in the interest of one But what a political pull the southed grower i..! MldS^S^"