RE PRICE OF CEMENT.
(To the Editor.) Sir. —Ts it not time Government attention was called to the way in which the public is being exploited in one of the most essential commodities on the market? For some time cement could be bought. free on trucks at Auckland, under £2 los per ton ;;et, which was not lower than prices selling in ether countries. Then it was raised to £M 2s 5d per ton net for a while, then again to £.'! 7s per ton net, and now to the high price of £4 16s 3d per ton net. We are told New Zealand has all the raw material equal to any in the world for the manufacture of cement, therefore, is the public to be robbed of the benefits by a combination of companies who are out after abnormal profits to compensate them for killing a rival enterprise? The community has lately been educated in the matter of laying down our main roads with concrete, but at the increased prke is it possible to :'o so without levying a very heavy toll on the taxpayer and country inlustr ies? The positiou has now become so acute that it is up to the Board of Trade to get to work and make the fullest inquiry in the hope that the extcrtir.ate prices now charged may be reduced to something reasonable and yet permit the companies in the combine to make a fair dividend. —I am, etc. ONE OF THE PUBLIC.
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Waikato Times, Volume 89, Issue 13817, 11 July 1918, Page 6
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249RE PRICE OF CEMENT. Waikato Times, Volume 89, Issue 13817, 11 July 1918, Page 6
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