CHEAP FLOUR v. DEAR BREAD.

Southland Times, Issue 1205, 4 February 1870, Page 2

CHEAP FLOUR v. DEAR BREAD.

(TO THB BDITpB OS THB T1U83.) Sir, — Can you explain how it comes about that although flour continues falling, the loaf neither decreases in price nor increases in size ? Three or four pounds the ton down on flour ought surely to make some difference in the loaf. I near, it, the 41b loaf, is selling in Melbourne at 6d, here it is 9d, and then not weight generally. lam not one who would unnecessarily screw down prices. I like to get well paid myself for my work, but it appears to me the bakers must either have been working for nothing before, or they have sweeping profits now. My baker says " they have to lie so long out of their money, and drop a good bit sometimes by a bad- mark," but I don't think that a satisfactory answer, to a man who always does pay bis bills. It's nofc just to make the good " marks " bear the loss sustained through " long time hands" or levanters. Gould not the bakers, aye^; and other tradesmen too, try a ready money way of doing business ? I have seen it done otherwheres in the colony, , all goods charged the same figure to everybody, but when you put down your money on the counter at once, you got a good discount either in goods or cash. I do wish some one would try the plan. I know numbers of working men who grumble awfully at having to pay, as they say, the debts of a lot of loafing swipers. — Tours, &c, Paterfamilias. ♦ ■ —