CORRESPONDENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 May 1919, Page 7

CORRESPONDENCE.

PRICE OF CORRUGATED IRON. To the Editor. Sir, —In your issue of yesterday you have a local Informing your readers that corrugated Iron is now quoted at £47 per ton. Will you be good enough to state where it can ba bought at that price, and if American, German or Eugllsh galvanised. Being in the trade for a considerable time, and knowing the markets, it is quite nice to hear that people In the paper trade know more about iron ware than paper ware. Now, Mr. Editor, please tell your readers what reductions have been made in paper lately, and when you are going to let us have the Dally News for one penny—l am, etc., INGLEWOOD. (The Information was given our representative by a New Plymouth business man who had the quotation before him. If our correspondent had read the paragraph carefully he would have noted that it was iron "to laud" —not "on hand." The price of paper has nothing to do with the subject, but for his information It may be stated that tlie jidco of paper has hardened—uot eased—since the armistice, due probably to tho removal of war restrictions on the newspapers in the belligerent countries. Probably no industry in New Zealand Ibis been so hard hit as tho newspapers which lave by no means "passed on" the greatly Increased cost of production.—Ed.)