THE HIGH PRICE OF FOOD.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 28, 2 August 1911, Page 2

THE HIGH PRICE OF FOOD.

TO £&fi BBITOa. Sif,— -1 am eUrbised that there ha? not been Jnors corfesponclenbo oH thl« subject —so lmpoftftnt tb us folk ; who, feel the pihch of the high price of fbod. One big butter man coolly admitted. that the best butter is sent to England i afid wo, in whaots country h is ptodueed, are charged 6, lughfef price for an inferior article. Nfc tloubt the saiho • is ' the' casa wiCh other footlfet Let Big give' ail inst»ne& coining Withlli ftiy-dtth.,]ieit, Some ,-years- ago a ffiettd of forty vdars 1 stAhding (Mr/ Charles flfflltti, ot'.Tiß Kprito.'Wajiganui) ttfTd tuo thatj whett m Etigland, J sh6J r tiy, before, 'l«j had Biade efiquitles &4 'to tije 'price ol tinned meat in London. Ha .ftuitM, to nii fliicßfise, that he «jul& "buy tihned nifeit there at a considerably ldwt>f- fate than ift Waflganui. • Result i' he purchased several doaeh eases 1 m^\ bifeaghfe 4hem back wilh Hifn to W*jtgailut, TTh^ -thffi)? seems Utterly absufd, hvt , ife ia. . Undoubtedly true.— l ani ettf., ' MU "t i ', « - A'fATHBR. 28th Ms, 1911 ' i ' to ski S»n;6s Vl . ..JiF^With r'efei^fece to the' letters of ;'Thih Butter" n and,"Fre^mah," appearing in<laat night's ie?ue-of" the Post, may I I, be permitlsci to eay^hat "Thin Buttar" stated that' Mr... Hill's controversy Was with Mr. M'taren, tvhere.ts it was with niyself. The ;ins"Wces quoted by "Thin Butter" ' ftri irfost i'lltimfnating 1 , and throw a lttrkl light upon ihe 'way in which the cortstaigf v is ' penalised. I had originally intended, ■when writing hiy flfst lettei-, to '4b& exhaustively vvith other pfoducta than: m«mt and butter, but found that in order to give chapter and verse and sustain my case nty letter be« , came sufficiantiy long in dealing with *}J2?? "^? itehis. alone, f Can assure both "Thin Butter", and ""Freeman" .that I have nftiple evidence a3 to tho existence et ttUSta in other direttiohs than those .already quoted bY me, "and that I shall before long put before 'the 1 public in the plainest possible 'language the position ih which the consumer' stfaiids te-day with' fegafd to the necessaries ' 6'f life. With respect to "Freemaft'e" " remarks re taking Off the duty on .timber, this is a fli'at,ter which 1 advocated thfee years ago lti public addretsea, and J still adheffe te my views as then expressed oh thi* question. 1 trust ,tha.t others besides niygelfwill edhte forward aad assist in exposing the devious ( methods employed by the combines which" control the output aftd pries of the csinwodities essential to the well'being of the g&neral public— I am. etc., ' F. G, BOLTON. Wellihgtoft lit August,' 1911,