THE PRICE OF BREAD

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22497, 14 August 1936, Page 15

THE PRICE OF BREAD

Sir, —Permit me space in your widelyread paper to commend the letter of G F. B. Weiss which appeared in the HKJtALU of August 6. I heartily endorse his views on the unwarranted and exorbitant price of bread and fowl wheat. This has surely been the greatest hardship borne by the masses during the dark years of depression which we have just passed through. The cost of a loaf is the same now (at least, in the town where 1 have bought bread for many years past), as it was in the mad, bad boom years, when the price of wheat was round 7s 6d per bushel. Why should a handful of wheatgrowers be protected by a guaranteed price and spoon-fed at the expense of hundreds of thousands of people least able to bear it? To my mind this is the most urgent case our present legislators ought to be grappling with. I quite realise reforms to suit all sections of a community cannot be brought about in a day, and as a relief worker appreciate and am grateful to the Labour Government for their earnest endeavours to better my conditions. J contend, however, the Hon. the Prime Minister and his colleagues can bestow a still greater blessing by giving this matter of the price of bread (and the abolition of the embargo oil wheat if necessary) a thorough keel-hauling, so that we may be able to buy our bread at a cost commensurate with the world's price level. Te Kaha. W. J. Parkinson.