THE FLOURMILLBRS' TRUST.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 12607, 10 March 1903, Page 6

THE FLOURMILLBRS' TRUST.

TO TAB EDITOR. Sin,—l consider the thanks of this community nrn duo for exposing through the medium of your paper the mce little game this combination is trying to accomplish at I present—namely; the purchasing for £33,000 of Evans and Co.'s <\vo mills and the intention to charge the consumer an extra 10s' per ton on flour to onable the trust to pay | for the mills in one year., Just so; the public pays for the mills and the trust owns them. Then, this fol- ! lowing year, tho trust buys some more mills : on the same liberal terms, and so on until it owns the lot; then we have the Yankee j notion puro and simple, with the power to j fix the price of buying the farmers' wheat; as woll as the selling price of flour—making ■ a, huge profit both ways. I Let the public take warning in time, and let us support those mills outside this rinjc, ; thereby ensuring the bursting up of this monopoly iii tho staff of life. j Hoping to see the Government take this j matter seriously in hand I am, etc.,. March 6. Breadwinner.

TO THE EDITOR. I Sib,—l notice by your to-day's issue the! Labour Council has recommended all union members to abstain from buying broad from • bakers who are tied to the flounnillcrs' combine. That seems to mo an anomalous position for unionists to advocate. What are their principles? Combination. ■ How do non-unionists get along if they ha,vo to work with unionists? Not vory well, I'am afraid, Unionism overdone has had the bad effect of forcing up the prices of nearly every colonial product necessary for the working man's household.—l am, etc., I March 6. Consistency. I

—An encraver of Odessa has engraved : tho entire Russian National Hymn upon a j grain of corn, and recently ho presented ihe curiosity to tho Czar. His Majesty has now forwarded to him, through the Civil Governor of Odessa, a gold watch and chain, with i his flunks for carrying out such a laborious j undertaking, V