Correspondence.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 21 January 1913, Page 3

Correspondence.

j (Our correspondents' opinions are their own; the responsibility of editorial ones makes sufficient ballast for the Editor's shoulders). : I'OULTIIYMJiN'S PESTS. j, (To tho Editor.) Sir, —■Your articlc exposing the tactics of certain merchants in Wellington is timely. There is tho old game extended, scruples being now unpeon to the naked eye. Such being the case, sprays of rose water .wo'ikl only act on them as an invigorating tonic—hcnco the need of plain speaking and of cohesion am<ng us. That "supplies are arriyiig freely" is only a piece of comineicial taradiddle. The quantity of egg) sent from here now is only abovt half that of October, when l>rios were higher in spite of the greaer supply. Their present atteinjt to undo tho egg circles consist in boycotting and harassing our J "Wellngton representative, and sell . ing ,'ggs below cost of production, tlmsinaking producers pay for their uudoug so that each of us may bo delivered hack into their hands to explot at leisure. Loins remember that their pressure 3 not confined to "Wellington. Leriij and even its Egg Circle, may he mtle to foel it through its membership For tho present and the neari fiture it is a choice for us hetwecji roasting in the frying pan or on tto red hot embers, hut T have no doubl wo shall win in the end if we etWf to our organisation in spito of th& purposely-created drawbacks to puhjrise it. The losses to pooltrymenin the Levin district alone owing this anomalous state 'if things .'fane into hundreds of pounds annually What with these alleged captainsif industry, the stoats and weasels, itits and red-mites, life for the averse poultryman is getting quite interesting, if a bit hard andKprplexing.—Yours, etc., . \ . H. LEGBR.