PRICE OF BREAD.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 5, 4 December 1883, Page 2

PRICE OF BREAD.

I (TO THB EDITOR OP THESi'AiIDABD.) Sir, — 'With "Consumer lii your Saturday's issue I 'challenge r JtJ}e f light, of the lbcaT bakers to advance tli e * -price of bread because aft Act of Parlia- , n}ent seeks to make 'them lipheat ' iii 1 ibeir weight, iseVWd^es'seein : strange that in Wellington twenty-one of the bakeis have' adopted a similav^course (vide advertisement" 'in Wellington papers). Is it because the , law now • compels them to give ' us two* ' pounds weight ot bread in a 'two-p°ortnd loaf that they have to. raise the, price? "Vyhat is the infereiice ? Wfiy, that till now we consumers have not been getting full, weight, and in fart have been systematically " chizelled." Butchers have to sell their meat by weight, and grocers thrir;: gpods jn the saWe way, vfhile liquids are "sola By measure, yet immediately the bakery ai;e asked to g^e»S'fewA|pouads;Qf Wad in,, a t\^o pound loaf, they announce they will raise.tbejprioe. I jse^tho public should resist \ha imposition, for an imposition it pipst Qfirt^nlyiis.^ Hasiifloui risen? If so, I have not heard of it. Now fe, the time to start a 00-operative bakery, ami I kfl® w : soores' ot >people/ ; who will take \xp sKa,^ ; 3- vejilumta sa,y that;, before % month is over the monopokya* will be.broken, but that does not matter. ; , J^ r: is.iiau injq«\tpu?, atfcevtipt tor le| vy biackm^i, w,Mp^ ,iJi!B.pUbHcjshoiild _. fijgfct wii wjrhevo/ASiftTigPoiii chance j now (or bakers if rpm I'ieldittg or Tfoxv ton to push: 8, i -i > »ipe:rsjton >^de.| M penny loaf of a rise may not seento niuch, but suppose the butchers aod

grocers and publicans were to go and do likewise, what Ian 1 outcry there would be ! Flour h;as%een mach dedrer than it is now, andjbread hasTemaitied at its usual price, but when thewe^ht has to be given, it must bjj risen; Lord, how we mitst have beem systematically cheated for years past. It is time the Legislature did interfere, and I hope the bakers will be made to toe the mark, religiously. "Were an outside baker to start business now in Palmeraton to-do-air honest tracltvand" sell at a reasonable profit, he could command the whole place, I should 'tteirkv— i ant, '&& '■'"'"" """" ■"* " - , ■ • Paterfamilias, t