WHEAT AND FLOUR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7786, 4 November 1886, Page 3

WHEAT AND FLOUR.

TO THE EDITOR, Sib.—Seeing ia your paper this morning that New Zealand flour ia cheaper in London than here, also New Zealand wheat is cheaper in Sydney than in the oolony, what will it be presently ? for I have good authority for stating that flour has risen 10s per ton within the last week, and is expected to rise more. Why not remove the tarifi on wheat and flour imported into New Zealand, so that we should have an open market for American produce, such as wheat and flour, so as to prevent dear Hour? Protection prevents other countries from sending their wheat to us, but does not prevent this oolony from sending wheat and flour to other countries, so as to reduce our stock so much that we pay more for the article produced here than the countries we send to thousands of miles away from us. But put the tariff on again just at the reaping of oar harvest, or else vre shall have the buyers of wheat, etc., repeating what they did last harvest, buy at the lowest hungering prioe that they could squeeze from the farmer, and then run up the price, as they have done since last crop. The remedy I believe is in the people's own hands, viz., to have the tariff removed temporarily.—l am, &c, Peo Bono Publico.