LETTERS CONDENSED.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16161, 15 March 1918, Page 9

LETTERS CONDENSED.

"A Tii!Vf>llci - ■' complains of the man- . ner fn which the work is being done on that nieco of road between the ' rermhurst"' letter-box and tho Conway bridge, fnr ivhicli the Government a - lotted £4000 on the Public "Works Estimates.- He savs tho work is being done if slowly, :ind is so much overpaid. that the job will cost nearer £11,000 than £-1000. Halt the foul thousand pounds, he says, has b«n spent, and the work has as yet hardly ~ '\V Miles condemns the attitude of tho Spreydon Borough Council on the Samoa c|ucstion. Surely, he says, everything possible should bo done to strengthen 0 the hands of our delegates to the Imperial Conference, and they shoula leave this country quite satisfied that thfv have the solid support of its public opinion in advocating the retention or the German colonies. . , "'Scrutator'' writes in defence or tne farmer against ignorant critics, anrt condemns the low maximum price bxect for. wheat. He suggests that the Government should raise the prico o wheat to 7s, or even Bs, and take over Fall the mills, selling the flour at under £18 a ton. Ho adds: W hen I say

suck price, I would not, perhaps gnna the wheat into fine, silk-drcesod Horn, | but into plain wholesome -war flour. Any other lots, if ground into fino confcctioner's flour, should not be bold under twenty-five pounds per ton, or more than that. In fact, I believe, m the interests of the whole community, that all the wheat should be ground into war flour, and no other grade allowed, 1 do not mean by war flour. German n°" r or its components, but only hrstclass war flour, a good wholesome grade Such even at eight shillings per bushel for the wheat could be sold at eighteen pounds per ton or less amount (rocauso a lob of the material, viz., sharps and ■bran, taken as now out of the -njheat ground, would bo a much less quantity, and those contain some of the best elements of the flour). Such, doings and prices would result in greater health for the community at large, ensure a good supply of wheat, and be a benefit all round."