CORRESPONDENCE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1257, 11 June 1914, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

(To the Editor). Sir,— la reply to “Squarer Deal.” lam glad to know that he thinks I have conferred a special benefit on the public of Foxton by writing. He does not, Mr Editor, upset my arguments wherein I wrote, “other things being equal” local business people should receive first consideration. He says, by buying from Auckland a friend of his saved four shillings on a bag of sugar, and eightpence on a i lb. tin of cocoa. I suppose his friend sent the cash with the order and paid freight. The man he bought from wasn’t asked to wait two or three months for a settlement. If business people were paid cash with orders and buyers took delivery of goods over the counter, a reduction could be made on many lines. The loss incurred by business men through the credit system runs into from six to eight per cent, on their annual turnover. There are some skinflints who are fond of crying out about paying for anything, and no matter how you treat them, they can be better served out of town —and they fall in like they did about that presentation. How would “Squarer Deal’s” friend get on if someone else outside was called on to do his work, likewise someone else from Auckland to do whatever “Squarer Deal” is engaged in ? Turn the little game on “Squarer Deal” and the other pack who are willing enough to get all they can out of Foxton but are not sufficiently patriotic to support those who help to keep them. Again thanking you in anticipation- —I am, etc., Fair Deal. (To the Editor.) giR, —I notice by your last paper that the Council are beginning to rub the cobwebs from their eyes about the gas works. Does the Council think that the ratepayers are foolish enough to give them another ,£3,000 to improve the works without a guarantee that the works will be made to pay a little better than in the past ? I think, sir, the extra money should be voted by the ratepayers, but the loan will not be carried unless the works are put on a better footing. I was disappointed to read so little on the gas works discussion at the Council. The public should know a little more of what the Council is going to do about the gas works before the loan comes on. —Yours, etc., Ratepayer.