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Observer, Volume XXVII, Issue 40, 22 June 1907, Page 3

The true cause of the forcing upwards of the price of flour and bread is easily seen. It is the result of cornering operations which could proceed as easily as if there were no duty on wheat, up to at least a limit set by freight rates and shippers' and middlemen's profits out of imports. — Napier " Telegraph."

Suoh is the love of snobbery among us that there are scores and scores would rather see their sons chained to the desk, with little hope of rising—or to put it differently, where rising is only for the very few — than serving their time at better paid but as honest a toil. — Reef ton f Times."