PRICE OF BREAD.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 6, 5 December 1883, Page 3

PRICE OF BREAD.

[to the .editor. of the standard.] SiR,T-Itt your issue of Saturday a lette*'»ppear* referring to the price of breads asks has flour suddenly risen more than 25 per cent, or is it that t^a new Act compels bakers to be honest In their weights. In answei to : tih.c first question. I beg to Btate^lnaV owing to ihe overdone state of the trade during the last eighteen months bread has. been selling 25 per cera Wsr its ' yalUft; mt ca^b,. ( \ Consumer* .wilL'haye^Tp^id; % ,twp lbs ißfnbtirjv'whireas. t>rior to the rise he coultf'gefcjfce^lb Joaf tor M~a penny lesa"t*efi ' &e \raw- „' material., . Surely « CcmWner" c&nnpt think this is ligitimja^afe 0 I wist aj^o to point ouj to " Cpnsuraer '''"ih&i the^booking price is the^ame 1 . ' With regard to "Consumer's'! allusion to the new A.ct, balr^rb^a^e^p^only compelled to, give hodeW'' weightj; '^ut niore, bre^d re-, quires '^to ije ! weighed 24 ' hours ajfter : being r baked,'flnd is it loses at least pne : ounde during, that time . we inusifc make up b #e "difleronce! There" are other, vexatious clauses m the. Act *hich have to be with, hence; the rise. I wish also td inform / f o9mumei\" that m charging, 4it^ ! 'Slb Ib^.and^ben i^ fc con-, siderOTiihat flour can be purchased, from £>\ to £1 10s per ton less then m Palmerston, I think the public have no cause 'for 1 complaint. Perhaps "Consumer "is 'not"rfwai > c thtft during the last eighteen. jpaonths bread has been selling m Pa] mcrstoiiL from 12|to 37^ -per cent, less then anj, otlier town on the West Opast. S«ch a state; of things donH^v much for the. place.. As far as "'Consumer's "idea abput the public submitting, 1 repeat the public have no just cause for -complaint, and after all I fear " Consumer "has been sniffing a,t a moth and 'will have to swallow the camel. — I am, &c, J. A. Heaton. P.Si — Bread has been, selling m Wanganui during the last 12 months at 4d, cash or. booked. — J. A. H.