STOP THE EXPLOITATION.
In urging Ike Government to, take action, the Dunedin Star says-. Recording to statistics there is moje. than a sufficiency of oats in New Zealand to carry us on to the next season. Heavy yields are reported and the" quality in Otago and Southland is higher than for many years past. It is exactly the sort of season, so far as oats are concerned, in which there should be no need for corners or inflated operations. Notwithstanding these facts, we have it on undoubted authority that speculators have forced prices- up to a point that is unreasonable and. hazardous, and the immediate outcome of this speculating is that chaff and oatmeal and all breakfast foods are being made dear. Oatmeal was £2O a ton six weeks ago, and to-day it is £24; Good chaff has gone up fully £1 per ton, and is now worth £7. Other lines are advanced in proportion.
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Taihape Daily Times, 11 April 1918, Page 6
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155STOP THE EXPLOITATION. Taihape Daily Times, 11 April 1918, Page 6
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