FLOUR-MILLERS' TACTICS.

Evening Star, Issue 12768, 22 March 1906, Page 8

FLOUR-MILLERS' TACTICS.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —In reference to Mr Harraway’s statement to you, as reported in your issue of lasi night, under the heading of ‘ Commercial,’ wherein he denies that the Flour milling Trust have made sales at the reduced price advertised by tho Northern Milling Company to Auckland, will Mr Harraway inform your readers whether or not it is being done by the Otago millers, who are members of this Trust? It is well known that such sales at tho reduced prices have been made, and I ask Mi Harraway to contradict me through our columns, and I will then rive some further particulars. The public here are indebted to the Northern Milling Company for bringing before them this state of affairs, and it is a grave injustice to Dunedinites that they should be compelled to pay £9 per ton for the same flour that is sent to Auckland at, £7 5s —a difference of 55s per ton. Why should our bakers be forced to pay this huge difference in price? Surely it is high time they resented this impost, and showed some backbone. Bread here should be down to 4d, with flour at £7 ss. What are the Trades aud Labour Council thinking about? Why do thev not take some action in the interests of the workers?—l am, etc., One Who Knows, March 21.