HIGH PRICES.

Tuapeka Times, Volume II, Issue 75, 17 July 1869, Page 3

HIGH PRICES.

(To the Editor of the Tuapeka Times. )

Sir, — I have seen with pleasure the successful efforts to bring down the high prices which have remained here as reminders of what had been the state of things during the rush ; but unfortunately" I have as yet derived no benefit from the reduced price of provisions. lam a bachelor, and reside in an hotel, where I am charged the same rate of board as I would have had to pay six or seven years ago, thereby affording the boarding master a better profit than he could gain even in the bye-gone " good times." Now, as the principal features of all our upcountry boarding-house tables are bread and moat, I think this very unfair, in the face of current prices for these commodities. From twenty to twenty-five shillings is as much, as any board given in Lawrence is worth, and that price would pay the hotelkeeper an excellent profit. Why, then, is there no agitation to bring it down to that limit ? There are surely enough bachelors in Lawrence to make their power felt, and if they unite, the Bonifaces will never be able to resist them. ~Fov my own part, I prefer spending my money otherwise than increasing the profit of a publican, who makes quite enough in other ways. I hope the matter will be taken up, and remain, &c, A Bachelor. Lawrence, July 6th.