CORRESPONDENCE.
(To the Editor-)
Sir. —Could I ask through your columns why our local storekeepers are charging the public 12s 6d per bag for sugar and 8s 6d for a solb bag ot flour, when an out-district storekeeper is selling the same for 10s 91 and 8s respectively. Do you tnink that this is fair to the working men’s wives ? The millers have been compelled to cut the wages down, and the groceries, bread and meat have been raised. Then they are continually crying out that they have so many hundreds on their books. I don’t know how they expect a working man to live and be Honest, and yet if they knew a single shilling went out of the town they would have a face as long as a fiddle. I understood that the Government sal ■ - ■- price of food was not to be raised. It strikes me our storekeepers are the ruling government in Foxton. Thanking you for space.—l am, etc., A Worker’s Wive.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1334, 8 December 1914, Page 3
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165CORRESPONDENCE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1334, 8 December 1914, Page 3
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