THE BREAD QUESTION.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 917, 2 June 1877, Page 2

THE BREAD QUESTION.

To the Editor of the Globe. Sir, —In your leader of June Ist you say that bread at 8d per loaf, and flour at £l6 pel ton, leaves a net profit of £7 per ton. Will you or any of your readers tell me how you arrive at such a conclusion, as I, being a baker, and one interested in such matters, should like to know!? T have tried to figure it up, but X cannot make it reach your figure anyway before expenses are deducted, much less after. What I make of it is this : Sixty-eight loaves of bread at Bd, comes to £2 5s 4d, multiply that by ten and you have £22 13s 4d ; deduct from that £l6 (price of flour), and you have not £7, but £6 13s 4d ; and when you have deducted the expenses from that if you will kindly let my know I eha.ll be obliged.

By inserting this in your next issue you will oblige all the Twenty-eight. Yours, &c,

G. HAWKEB, One of the Twenty-eight. [Even on the showing of our correspondent the figures quoted by us in yesterday's issue were nearly correct; and if he will read our remarks overjonce more, he will ficd that we stated the net profit on a ton of flour, by selling bread at Bd, is "nearly, if not quite, £7 per ton." After all, the difference between us is but a lawyer's fee, 6s Bd, of which we make him a present, together with some gratuitous advice. Let the bakers of Chrißtchurch remember that were a cooperative bakery established, they might be forced to accept a much less sum than £6 13s 4d on a ton of flour.—Ed. Globe.] To the Editor of the Globe. Stb, —Having a large family, and only & moderate income, I beg to thank you for your leader iu this night's ft lobe; and I think you are entitled to the thanks of al bread consumers for the manner in which you have exposed the unwarranted extortion which eight-and-twenty bakers have combined together to practice on the people of Christchurch. Is it not a singular thing that in Timaru, where the price of flour is the same as it is here, the peop-e are proclaiming loudly against the increase of the four-pound loaf to eightpence ? The conclusion to be arrived at is this—that the people of Timaru have to pay a penny more than they ought to, and the inhabitants of Christchurch double that amount. I hope you.- suggestion re the establishing of a cooperative bakery will be acted on. By this mear,s, and the increased consumption of home-made bread, the selfish objects of these trade combinations will be frustrated in the future, and extortionate demands effectually put an end to. Yours, &c, CONSUMEE. Madras street, June 1.