To the Editor of the Colonist.
Sir—ln one of your late papers I think I saw that the best flour was selling at Adelaide for £11 per ton. In your commercial column last week, under the heading Auckland Markets, I perceive that flour is £15 per ton in that province. Can you inform the public the reason why flour and bread should maintain so lii<fh a price in this province ? Perhaps there is a stupid combination among the millers of Drone and the lijjht weights to keep up the price of the staff of life, similar to that'tried on by the knights of the marrowbones-and-cleavers, to get up a ridiculous price for their hard-grained beef and. mutton, but which . suddenly, failed, as it is to be trusted-that all such unscrupulous combinations will for ever fail.
BAEM.
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Colonist, Volume IV, Issue 425, 19 November 1861, Page 2
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