PRICES STILL GOING UP.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3433, 12 March 1920, Page 4

PRICES STILL GOING UP.

,__. .. It. is not. only in coahnining that it crisis is being reached. Our trouble with miners has been lomporzirily moved away, but as increases in cost of living take place, and they are coming with such rapidity and in such volume that they constitute“-u verit~ able fusilade, a recrudescence of the trouble must come. Nothing is left out, tea, sugar, bread butter, cheese, bacon, nlcat,potatocs, wheat, vege-

I1u1:.1ns, fruit, travelling, migln, wool» ‘lens, cotton, boot‘s, hal'ness_. lou1l1<)1'. ' paper, irlr:x'(3a.<osonN'il't.ually nvcl'_‘,'thill;;‘ valuable. to man, except’ truth and IlonoS.*y, are Il1!'e:1tex1il1)g iH<fvl'L'3>'\-‘ Of cost‘. T 1101), as {L natural (‘()roll:1r_V. \\'a‘g(‘.~% must go up to enable men to Il'iv.v, and so unevenly will the ]iill<'ll be felt that :1 cl'isi.< musf come in sunu_- in(.lllstl'ios before otllel's. The smtlmncm: of the coal problem «an [only pro\'(: :1 vel'_y short lxrspift‘ ‘:ls 1110 lincrousu in cost of living mounts 111)-».\'ust-ufisticialsubfm'fllgo iSSIICd by the Gnvo.rnnlC.ut is <lo(<civing l‘A1b011I'; the wol'l{Cr knows that lwfme HlO \\':ll' he palid 20/ for :1 pair of l.)O()l5 wlxiuh {he c:l.nnnt ‘buy now for 10.55 Hl3" 50/l\\'n heal‘ much about high prices of lleatlnor from boot Innullfactllrcl's, but we lwiir Hfilhing from l1:1r11ess111:1.l:m's. We realise that we are having to pay somotlzing‘ nlo‘ro for harness and other loatlwr goods, goods that are all leatlmr -;uu_‘l labour, and we are in«:linod to resent it. ’l‘l1(- .<zlddlolj, as well as the boot manllfuct'nl'm'_. has to pay from 100 to 200 per cent 11101-0 for his raw Illatelial than before flu? \\':u‘. and ‘the cost of manufacture is easily 100 per cent higher. l.ooking' :If'tlm latest price-list bct’ol'o us wv see that all classes of lo{l'l,llOl‘ have .~'o{1r(u‘l; about equally; l)1'i<llo lr‘2l.thm. was 35/,4 it is now 75/; lm,;; l«3zll'lmr was 25/.l now 135/; loggillg‘ lea’rlwr lms gone up} I'l‘CH? 137/“ l 0 59/? I‘Oll‘ <-ollar lval‘llm'l fl'om 50/ 30 140/; black ruin lon.tlu"r‘ from 40/ to SO/_. :n.nrl sumo kimls 211'?‘ unquof:ll)lC. ln nr(lina,l'y irzuling‘ wvl re:zli.~'e fl:-at tlu: >':1«l<ll(§I" as well as film boot manufactux-or, »lln,g. to pay om 1 more lliau twice the money for his lv:v,ihm', uml bcczlll.‘~'o lm 'nlfl.li(‘,s no -wail through Iwvs's’papor.~: m: are inclinod I'o th:Tl:k he is rlnlng_‘ mo well in mulm :1

noise about it. It is a fact that nmny. indeed most, retailers are longing and hoping for the day of sane and honest trading. Governments fully under—stand that the road to industrial and social peace will remain blocked until Shipping Combines remove the first and greatest obstruction. The complete removal of secret trading would tend to eliminate dishonesty in trade, and prevent the most conscieneeless rogues and robbers from a.cculuulat.in,gr imponderable hoards of riches; the truly clever proclivity would receive an impetus, and who will say that is not what the business world most urgently neetls? Farmers are the greatest harness users; they know what they receive for their hides, and we have stated what harness-makers pay for their leather, if there is intermediate robbery farmers as at whole should use their influence in the cause of honesty.