THE BREAD QUESTION.

Tuapeka Times, Volume II, Issue 60, 3 April 1869, Page 3

THE BREAD QUESTION.

(To the Editor of (he Tuapeka Times.)

Sib, — Why this eternal harping about lowering the price of bread? Is it not lowered to 9d. a loaf? Let the public, then, be content, and purt chase their bread of the baker who has been co magnanimous as to comply with their unjust demand. I can't sell my bread at less than Is a 41b loaf, and give three months, ay, six months, and in a good few cases nine, twelve, and eighteen months' credit. I think if the bakers would club together and raise the price to Is. 3d. it would be a far more reasonable step than reducing it to a figure at which, in Lawrence, at all events, it would be impossible for a baker to live. And " Housewife," who appears simultaneously in the two local prints, who is she ? Does she mean to accuse all the bakers of producing . "unwholesome, sour, halfbaked potatoe-bread ? " if not, let her point directly to whom she referes, and not include my bread, which is neither unwholesome, sour, half-baked nor light weight, a proof of which she may have by calling at my shop, when I will allow her to pick out the worstlooking loaf of any batch, and confidently await her decision, believing that she will at once apologise for including my bread in <the black list. — I am, <ec,

Air Indighaht Bakeb. March 30, 1869.