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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 32, 7 August 1893, Page 2

to the editor of the star. Sib, —l notice in your issue of the oth instant a letter under the above heading, and though having no interest in the baking businesi, I have some knowledge on the subject, and a sense of fair play induces me to write a few lines in reply. "Staff of Life" must be entirely ignor* ant of what ho is writing about, or he would not have quoted the figures he did. For instance, to use his own fig* urct>, which are correct, he quotes roller flour (from which the bread he cats is almost entirely made) at £8 oh in Wellington. To this he must add expense of carriage to here, about 15s, making £9 per ton. or 18s per sack Now n baker makes 130 21b. loaves from a sack. Thi*. at 2d, is 20s lOd per sack, or a profit of 28s id per ton. Out of this he has to pay all working expenses, riz.: Fuel, cost of delivery, horfe feed, Ac; and I think I do not exaggerate oce bit when I say to sell bread at 2d per loaf would leave an absolute loss to the baker. Whether they are selling at this price in Wanganui I cannot say, but I do know that until a week ago they were selling it at 3Jd for cash and 4tl booked, and I notice nn advertisement in the Wanganui Chronicle of the 3rd instant giving notice by one of them of hit intention of reducing it to 3d and 3jd. So " Stuff of Life" will sec that ho has been paying considerably less for his bread for some time past than the people of Wanganui, where flour costs fully 10s per ton less ; aud I would recommend him, before rushing into print again on a subject of which he cannot have the slightest knowledge, to furnish himself with fuller particulars, and see that fits ideas are more in contormity with the old saying of Live and Let Live.

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