CHEAP AND NASTY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 316, 16 June 1915, Page 6

CHEAP AND NASTY.

To the Editor. Sir, 'A J'rcss Association tele Tain from Auckland has V (MI by (■very paper in the Dominion, rcpoi tin'" the prosecution or a business firm for selling l>aking powder which was over aI) per cent, of a fraud according to the l'lire Food mid Drugs Act. r desire to refer to this prosecution chiefly to direct public attention to the fact that in not a single paper hare the names of those "\\ho perpetrated the fraud been published. I -hold tin 1 opinioin. vSir, that any scoundrel that seeks to obtain profits by adulterating the people's food should be sent to gaol direct. Fines should not be inflicte,i in such cases. To tamper with people's food is surely criminal, lint, .Sir, why wfppro.ss the names of these gentry? Who are they, anyhow? The ■jwMic of the Dominion have been year in and year out fand are to day) robbed by unjr-incijiled scoundrels ii'ho when caught are lined a paltry pound or two. and the carefully suppre-r, their names lest perchance the victimiser's feelings should be harrowed or their precious reputations cracked. ]f some poor devil of a dead-beat when on the tramp rubs a hen roost and pots the bird and has a banquet, he, if caught, is sent to gaol ami his name is plastered in every sheet published in the district. Then why discriminate? Why should a rascally manufacturer who is a thief as well as human food adulterator be shielded, simply because lie may be moving in alleged polite society, and because be is attached to some leading religious organisation? Personally. I would rather be the dead-beat operating 011 the hen-roost. —T am, etc.. W. 11. HAWK IKS. Tntaraima.Ua, June. 12, l!)lfl.

[The telegrams are published as they are sent, and in the one referred to the name was not given. We agree with our correspondent that linns who are convicted of adulterating the people's food should not be protected in any way. -M. J '