CORRE SPONDENCE

Horowhenua Chronicle, 12 February 1915, Page 3

CORRE SPONDENCE

« LOui correspondents' opinions are theu own; tne responsibility oi editorial ones makes sufficient ballast for the editor's shoulders. | THE WHEAT STEAL. (To the Editor.) .Sir,—The high prices ol wheat ami mill oll'al have inflicted a heavy blowon poultryinen, an dendangered the existence of that industry (says tho Adelaide Daily Herald). The high prices of mill offal have hit the dairy industry hard; consumers of bread have been penalised to the extent of Id per loaf. The South Australian food rings rigged tho market so as to scoop in . nearly half a million of money 011 wheat alone. And tho Liberal Government aided them in tho steal. Altec .South Australia for Now Zealand and wo have it in a nutshell. Levin is, next to dairying, essentially a poultry farming district. Those slrugglers just hanging 011 by the ■'skin of their teeth" will bo hit the hardest. The. problem of the present is "What shall wo do with our wheat thieves?"—l am, etc., H. LEGER.