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Sin,—Not being an expert ih .economic science, will you permit me, as the father of a large family, to ask you, or any of your readers who are able and willing, to inform me why the public of New Zealand should at the present time he the willing victims of any combination of tradesmen' who choose to band themselves together for the purpose of bleeding their customers in every possible manner. I always thought that the law prevented any corner in the necessaries of life, and yet we have to-day the butchers, bakers, and others charging- prices which spoil ruin to the heads of large families. I ask again why is this permitted? Thcpo tradesmen can . raise their prices, but the people who have to pay-—the wage-earner, the hotelkecper, and many others—cannot obtain a corresponding increase. It is lime we, the victims, stood together and opposed this organised robbery.—l am, etc., Paterfamilias.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 11923, 22 December 1900, Page 3
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