MORE TIES NAILED!

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 304, 18 September 1943, Page 9

MORE TIES NAILED!

Honest criticism is one thing. Misrepresentation is both unsporting and unfair to electors. Here is the truth regarding Nationalist candidates’ charges that the price of certain foods has increased since the war. These are the FACTS that every housewife can cheek for herself at her grocer’s store. The Price of Bread: Nationalist candidates said that “the full loaf was 2 ounces les than that of pre-wai days.” The answer is that the full loaf weighed two .pounds in pre-war days and that is its weight today. For those who prefer it there is a “split” loaf available at the weight of 11b 12 oz.—BUT THAT HAS ALWAYS BEEN ON SALE. Far from there being a “wartime increase in cost of ISi per cent.” since the Labour Government stabilized bread prices in 19'56, the two pound loaf has been, and still is, 5Jd. Far from there being any attempt at deception of the public (he regulations state that, every bread-sell-er must display the classes, shapes and weights of the bread sold I The Price of Flour: A Nationalist candidate alleged that a 6-J lb. bag of flour had increasefl by 171 per cent, between 1938 and 1943. In actual fact flour is not sold today in 611 b. bags, nor has the price of flour increased. Flour was sold for olb. for 1/- in 1938 and it still is today. Ask your grocer I The Price of Sugar: A Nationalist candidate alleged Hint a 61b. bag of sugar in 1938 was 1/9 and that today it is 2/3. Sugar was Gib. for 2/- in 1938 and is 61b. for 2/- today. Ask your grocer I The Price of Butter: A Nationalist candidate says that (butter has increased in price by 8 per cent, since 1935. Every housewife knows, without asking anyone, that butter was 1/6 per lb. then and is 1/6 per lb. today! IViml, voter can respect the pledges of a Party which'bases its case in misrepresentation. Vote. L/L'BOiUR/igain —Ad-vU.