CUT PRICES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22809, 19 February 1936, Page 4

CUT PRICES

TO THE EDITOR

Sin,—ln a paragraph in the Daily Times of February 17 it was stated that at a meeting of the New Zealand Trotting Association Mr J. K. M'Kenzie drew attention to the number of men who, drawing unemployment pay, trained horses under conditions with which jhe average trainer could not compete. 'lt was not fair to owners," said Mr M'Kenzie, "that these men should be allowed to train horses under euch conditions. Neither is it fair to the trainers nor to the horses. There had been cases of men training horses at £1 per week and no man could do justice to a horse on this amount." As a business man who is not interested in horse-training, I should like to ask how it was that' many years ago a chain of stores was allowed to commence business in New Zealand and sell all classes of goods at prices with which the average retailer could not compete, the result being that many old-standing businesses were forced to wind up and put off their employees. Now that the effect of cut rates has come home to one of the originators of the scheme, should the unfortunate people on the unemployment list be questioned regarding their methods of making a living, I trust that some of our florists, ironmongers and chemists, whose lines have been cut and sold by these chain stores, will enjoy the reading of the paragraph which I have quoted as much as I have. —I am, etc.. Dunedin, February 17. Fair Plat.