To the Editor of the New Zealand Spectator. October 16, 1845.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume II, Issue 54, 18 October 1845, Page 3

To the Editor of the New Zealand Spectator. October 16, 1845.

Sir ,, — As we are promised a considerable quantity of flour from Taranaki, you would be doing a public benefit by conveying to the millers of that district, through the medium of your valuable journal, the following hints, which they do not seem to attend to; considerable quantities of the flour which have been impoited from that place have, after being kept a short time, turned out fusty : now, to prevent this, it is only necessary to allow the meal to remain three or four days between the grinding and its being made into flour. I can tell pretty correctly from the appearance of the flour which I have seen from that settlement, that this very necessary plan has been neglected, an opinion which I consider confirmed b\ the great quantity of flour that was left in the bran imported from the same place a short time since, had not this been made into flour whilst it was hot from the millstones, the bran would have been clear, and the flour free from the fusty smell. The whole has the appearance of some I have seen from the oldfashioned mills in Devonshire and Cornwall, in which seives were us,ed under the spout which conducts the meal from the stones : by this miserable plan the flour is immediately finished and packed away hot, and the invaiiable consequence is, that iii a very short time it becomes fusty. Surely in a purely agricultural settlement like Taranaki, the millers will not bring their flour into disrepute for want of a wire cylinder and brushes, which may be obtained from Sydney at from £\7 to £25. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, A large Consumer and Lover of Sweet Bread.