The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY LEVIN. WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 1915. FLOURMILLERS' TRICKINESS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 12 May 1915, Page 2

The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY LEVIN. WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 1915. FLOURMILLERS' TRICKINESS.

I Complaints about flouvniillers' injustice are frequent these days. Pollard in the flour, bran in the pollard, and prices as high as the qualities are low: these matters from the gravamen of the allegations. Lately the Government's Commission on the Price of Foodstuffs complained that no specific instances were being sent to it; only vague complaints. Here is a specific if general one The Chronicle niakee: that in the wheat offal sold as pollard these days there is a proportion of brail fully one-third in excess of the quantity customary before January last. To sell such stuff as pollard without abating the price is an offence within the meaning of the Government regulations. If the Commission is in earnest in its desire to remedy the evils it was set tip to rectify, it will investigate this matter and have a report on it made by a milling expert. The shortage of wheat is explainable, and so are the rises in prices of wlieaten products; but the admixture of thirdrate offal with the second class is adulteration of a mean kind.