Correspondence

Horowhenua Chronicle, 2 September 1916, Page 3

Correspondence

I [Our correspondents' opinions are their own; the responsibility of editorial I ones makes sutlicient ballast for the editor's slioulders.J CAKE-MEN ANiD EGG MEN. . (To tlio Editor). Sir.—l observe that the annual conspiracy between the cake bakers and the egg merchants is on- in Wellington this mouth. Eggs have dropped;'sixpence a dozen in eight davf., Lhciugh there are less than half the fowls in the country that there were eighteen months ago. Will poultry-raisers stand this? Let then remember that preserved eggs brought from Is Cd to Is 8d per dozen for the last two years. Fresh eggs todlay net about lid a dozen, and they will be brought lower if the commissioned robbers can manage it. ' Tho remetliy is to preserve eggs now and I gain sixpence a dozen on them next winter, besides helping to raise the price for fresh eggs within a verv few weeks; Poultry farmers pay through the nose for -everything they buy in these days; are they to be paid short for what they sell? Not if a Tew tins of egg preservative can stop it, I say. Eggs'a'i'ls 6tl a diozen are cheaper than butchers 1 ine.at ; .and at Is Gd a dozen the poultry keeper would be receiving only pricey considering wTi'jat wheat,and N.Z. pollard. (T ehg pardon! I should say polb'ran, - or brallard, its hnlf of each these days, and the price one and l a half over whn-t it used to be). The cry in Wellington to-day is "Down with eggs," and the nvan who lost his cake-profiis 'in trying to run his own poultry farm is sure to lie raising the crv «K Visual. "Down with the eggs" (his e-gs)is not my way ; mine are going down in waterglass.— T am. etc. DISGUSTED.