MONOPOLY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10469, 6 November 1911, Page 5

MONOPOLY.

Sir,—Shako hands Mr Editor. You are one of the first I have known to openly protest against the gigantic sugar trust. Their net New Zealand profits alone are equal to 2s a head for every man, woman and child in the Dominion. Sugar refined by the sweat of practically naked men and boys, amidst turroundings anything but sweet, although sugar. They crush every attempt at interference with their monopoly, owing to the vast amount of money they possess. They dictate prices and terms both to merchants who handle and the men who make the sugar, and we humbly submit. Sugar could profitably be sold at Id per lb less than at present, and although the company would not make a, quarter of a million profit as at present, it would be a very good business .proposition. In my humble opinion this is a case where the Government ought to interfere. It would require some back-bone to stand up against this gigantic concern. But it is time some of our politicians took a hand in the game. Who is the man to do it? —I am, etc., NO SUGAR.