CORRESPONDENCE.
A PAYING GAME. To the Editor of the Globe, Sir,— One day last year I asked a baker’s boy what made his bread so crumbly. He replied—“ Too many potatoes in it.” Lately I asked the same boy what made the bread soft and sticky. He replied—“ Made of new damaged wheat. ” So, it would appear, the millers and bakers are playing a paying game, as neither dour nor bread is correspondingly reduced in price with the exceedingly low figure at which the injured wheat is being bought. If the farmers received the benefit of the good price, I believe the public would not grumble, but it is too bad to make the people of Christchurch eat inferior bread and pay full price for it, merely for the benefit of millers and bakers. Yours, &c., SIFTER. PRESS v THEATRICALS. To the Editor of the Globe. Sir —As cricket seems to be all the rage at the present time amongst all classes, would it be out of the way to suggest a match between the members of the Fourth Estate and Thespians. It is now some time since we had anything of the kind, and I do not think the season should close without a match being arranged. Hoping some other will offer a suggestion, I remain, Yours, &c, CANTON. March 15th, 1876.
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Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 850, 15 March 1877, Page 2
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