THE PRICE OF BREAD. TO THE EDITOR

Evening Post, Volume XLVII, Issue 83, 9 April 1894, Page 4

THE PRICE OF BREAD. TO THE EDITOR

Sir — Such a hubbub, and what is it all about P There has been no timo, for many years past, that an article called a loaf of bread could not be bought in Wellington for 2Jd, and at preseut there are heaps of shops of various sorts even milk shops— where a loaf cm be bought at 2}d. I have heard of 2d in oases. But tl at that loaf is of f.a q. and weighs 21b is extremely doubti f,,i "Traveller" wants me to reply to a filly question, as flour is not £13 per ton, and when it was bakers lost a great many 10s per ton baking it into bread and selling at 3d or 2£d, even though it hardly weighed lilb. As to what they do in Woodville — well there are fools in Woodvillo apparently as well as travelling. " Economy," if he does notunderstand plain English, had better consuU, a friend. "J L " did not say he did : not know how many loaves can be made from a ton of flour, and be oonfosses to nothing of the sort. So ''Economy" can make his mind easy, and keep his hair on. " J.L." knows all about it, all tho same. Snroly I "Eoonomy" does not mean to tell us a baker buys 19701b of flour, says " hey, presto," and straight away gets 1250 21b loaves. That extra 5001b weight must oomo from somewhere, and cost money, ii. fact overlooked by interested writers of t tho " Eoonomy " stamp. And if he will purt (ihase a ton of flour— the ovon is waiting in Cuba-stroet— pay a journeyman J53 wages , nnd 13 loaves per week, drive it round after the milk is delivered, when his cash is all in a-mplo-mindcd " J.L." would like to know the re- ult. That .£8 2s 6d profit he gloats over would be, alas, not there. As to "J.L" being so simple minded as to think bakers ( arriccl on at a loss, yoa, " Economy," I not only think it, lam sure of it. Cortainly start a co-operative bakery as advocated by '' Nemo." Oh, "Nemo," nobody, a most rxpressivo norn, fits like a glovo. we had a co-operative bakery in Wellington once before, and we have had a bona fide co operative store more recently, and both, just like somo co-operativo milk sellers, came to grief and insolvency. So I am thinking the public of Wellington, betwoen co-operative company bakeries, groceries, milkerioß, Golden Gate flourings, P Urvillo quartz, Taranaki iron, antimony, Ac- but why specialise f Wellington atmosphere reeks with the odours of cooperativo companies "gone bung." I am, &c, J. L.