THE COUPON SYSTEM.
[to THE EDITOR.]
Sir, — I noticed a letter in your paper of Tuesday last about the coupon system, or paying in advance for bread, which I, for one, do not agree to at all. It is alright for the baker, but I think it is carrying the thing too far. Our husbands better start asking their employers to pay them their wages a week or a fortnight in advance. If the heads of families are to pay in advance for their bread, I think it is only fair that the bakers should show us where we are lo benefit. Will they tell us how many loaves a ton of flour will make at £ll losper ton, and the actual cost of production, allowing for all expenses and a fair thing for themselves (which they are entitled to). I have it, sir, on Ihe very best authority, that with flour at 10s per ton above its present price, and under the cash in advance system, bread could be delivered at per alb loaf. This new system may sound all very well, but with seven hungry children lo be fed, it becomes a very serious matter, and T, for one, will rather bake ray own bread than submit to what I consider a onesided and unfair bargain. I hope you will kindly insert this letter for me.—l am, etc.,
Justice.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 397, 2 April 1908, Page 3
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231THE COUPON SYSTEM. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 397, 2 April 1908, Page 3
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