BUTTER PRICES.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 November 1920, Page 2

BUTTER PRICES.

(To Hie Editor.) Sir, —Although .vou rather unkindly suppressed my previous letter cm tUis subject, I trust you will at least allow me to thank Mr. Simpson lor his kind offer to entertain me for a month, Unfortunately I am not able to avail myself of liis hospitality just row—besides, It would seem rather like imposition to add to the burdens of one in receipt of only 3d an I'otir wages. In the face of such generosity it seems almost ungracious on my part not to be convinced by Mr. Simpson's statement, but after following liis advice and "smoking" over his stateuem, I arrived at: the conclusion that to amnmlilato the £3OOO mentioned tit 3d per hour, a, man would have to work twenty-four hours a day and every day for nearly thirty years and even then he would not b* able to spend a penny on food or clothing for him* self or his family. Perhaps Mr. Simpson, like Mr. Maxwell and Mr. Powdrell, oyerlooked something or other in his calculations! —I .".on, etc., "T.D,"