A BREAD WINNER AT SEA.
' TO THE EDITOB 08 , Tflß PBESS. Sik, —I was rather aatoniahed this morning to read a letter signed "A Breadwinner." If this person knew ac much about 'milling as the -vsxiter he would not be ■so rash in making such , absurd statemeßts. according to his story .an averaged eised mill ifl netting £1400 per month, and even in the face of all this we have " overdrafts" and "blisters" on our property. I may state if. the milling community could depend; on tea shillings per -ton all the year round they would be -mate than ,'Satisfied, and according to "Bread-winner" the Aus* traiian millers get twenty shillings.','Hβ hffi3 also omitted tha', ifollovfing "small itenia," market fiuefcuatioas, Interesfc on iv- | vesfimsiit and capital employedj 'trade dis- j counts, comtnissionSj;, insurances, repairs, j -cartages,, atid incidentalespensca, to ea.y j oothiag about bad debts-through our bread- i winners-neglecting.to pay their bakers, and ■jgrocera,—Yours, &c, Coaiaxox Sassa P.S.-—Similar quantity Adelaide wheat] used agaiuab New Zealand the former would j be quite 15s a ton less in cost; no on*al, ail Soar.-—C.£s. . Match 31st, 1893.
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Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 8136, 1 April 1892, Page 3
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