THE PRICE OF BREAD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13499, 28 May 1907, Page 5

THE PRICE OF BREAD.

A NOVEL SUGGESTION. ! [by telegraph.—own correspondent.] i Wellington, Monday. A (Correspondent, writing in to-night's Tost on the rise in the price of flour and bread, makes the following remarks:—"We j have already got the Arbitration Court at [work regulating the wages of labour and acting as a check on' associations of workers who might be inclined to use their combination as a means of bleeding the community, and I ask, Is it not time that these associations of ■ capitalists were brought under the control of the same institution? Let them make application l to the Court for permission to raise their prices in the same way as the unions have got to make their 1 claims, and let them prove their case before they are given the power to demand from the whole community an increased price or the first necessity of life. If such a law had been in operation it is safe to say that there would have been no rise in the price of flour at the present time.' In view of these two rises in the price of flour, and the continued increase in the prices of other commodities, no' one can deny that such • a forward movement is necessary, and it is not too much to say that this proposed method promises better and more lasting results in the way of regulating prices than any proposal yet put forward." ' ''