THE BREAD QUESTION.

Tuapeka Times, Volume II, Issue 61, 10 April 1869, Page 3

THE BREAD QUESTION.

(To the Editor of tlie Tuapeka Times.)

Sik, — I noticed a letter in your last issue signed " An Indignant Baker," and he asserts that bread ought to be one shilling and three pence per 4lb. I loaf, as lie gives, such long terms for payment. I wish to ask " Indignant Baker " how he reconciles the injustice of charging the ready money customers the same price as he charges those who get eighteen months' credit. As a remedy for this long credit system, I can show " Indignant Baker," if ho only charged a fair price to his ready money customers, and made a difference to his long credit customers, it would be the means of remedying this abominable long tick system. But if " Indignant Baker " will charge so high, and give so long a time, I can inform him that he may think himself a lucky baker if he ever gets his full charge. But he might have signed his real natoe to his letter, so that several of us would patronise him on these terms, until the staff of life can be bought at a fair and reasonable price, as ifc is stiff for ready money purchasers to pay so high for their bread ; but the fact is, if the bakers persist in these prices* we shall be in duty bound to have plenty of time to pay our bakers' bills, as the bakers can, 1 suppose, well afford it, owing to the large profits accruing on their sales. If " Indignant Baker " writes again, I hope he will sign his own name, as it would be the means of bringing more trade to himself and perhaps benefiting others, — I am, &c, A W6ekino Maw.