THE PRICE OF FOODSTUFFS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVI, Issue 14167, 15 September 1906, Page 11

THE PRICE OF FOODSTUFFS.

v TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —I am glad to see that Mr Tanner has taken up the above question after my last letter on the subject. It is monstrous that this winter, when we have had feed in abundance, butter should be 2d a pound dearer than it has been any other year. We are bold that tlie large shipments sent Home are the cause of the high price. Why should .our Liberal Government allow ite people to pay fictitious prices for the necessities of life’ which we have her© in abundance? Why does not the State insist on fair play for the people both in price and weight of eatables. If the Government were a little jless zealous about public health and a little more anxious about prohibiting rings and trusts to bleed the people, we should all be better off in health and pocket. With regard to Mr Hornsby’s Quackery Prevention Bill, if it had included doctors’ prescriptions of dangerous drugs neatly wrapped up in Latin phraseology it might have been of some use. But doctors’ prescriptions and operations have killed and injured as many, if not more people, tlian socalled quack medicines.—l am, etc., ’ RADICAL.