£4 A TON FOR COAL

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 269, 7 August 1920, Page 7

£4 A TON FOR COAL

A KAItOIU'COMPLALNT. "Talk about' profiteering, and these little tin pot actions against small tradespeople."' sniil an irat" resident of ha-i-ori yesterday. "Wh.Y don't tliey go tor Hie bi" mail who > s Ri' u#s '.V nm ' openly nrollteering under the noses of everybody i'n anil out of. ai'thorilv? 'fake my case. I live at 'Karori and have to pay «tt a ton for coal. '11' there is one man I Hvc sympathy for, it is the coalimner. for out ol" that .fit he only gels 3s. for biastin" or picking, nut that conl. It prohabfv cost Is. a ton to get it doivn lo the port; 4s. per ton for port v-liar^c-s; Ms per ton freight to Wellington; say, ss!' iter. ton for port charges here; lis. ner t»n carlaee to yard n Wellington; nnil ss. per ton cartage out to Karori; total, ill 15«.. >'Pt I have to pay ill. Mlowin" tlte coalmine owners 10s. per ion profit and the retail distributors 55., Hie cost, would amount lo only .W 10s„ vet we have lo nay il. The above charge.- may not be exactly coned, but Ui('.v"nre reasonably near I lie mark, perhaps a little nvcr rather than under, so ono can see that someone is making 100 much out of a necessitous commodity under the nose. of. Hie Anti-Profiteering Hoard."