DEAR BREAD

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19442, 30 October 1925, Page 5

DEAR BREAD

(To the Editor)

Sir, —Some of the criticism levelled at the Government would be really amusing if it were not for the fact that a few of the electors may be misled by the grossly unfair statements which are printed. A few nights ago a critic blamed the Government for the high price of bread. Mr Veitch at one of nls recent meetings stated that bread was dear because it did not pay New Zealand farmers to grow wheat. If Mr Veitch is right the critic must be wrong. The critic also mentioned that butter is 2/- per lb. Any boy or girl of school age can tell you that the Dominion cannot prosper unless butter and our other primary products are bringing good prices, and yet the critic deals out this class of political ‘ ‘tripe” and expects grown-up people to digest it. Fair criticism is a good thing, but the tactics of this critic only go to show that when there is “nothing serious” to criticise they get busy and manufacture something. It will be hard to find this class of political journalism in any other town in New Zealand, and while it may tickle the ears of a few people, it is distinctly obnoxious to all fair-minded people, no matter what their political opinions may be.—l am, etc., R. E. CUTHBERTSON. Wanganui, Oct. 28, 1925.