PRICE OF BREAD.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 4 November 1913, Page 6

PRICE OF BREAD.

(To ihe.Editor.)

'Sir, —I noticed in your isfcue tins morning that the price*'of bread is to be risen by one half-penny per two pound iQdf, For what reason? Has the. present stock, of flour^in Mastertoin become more valuhftie, or do the bakers want tp get* what they can oii. the present 'stocKj hold by them to enable them "to the'''.extra' price that the wholesale merchants will put on before the strike is settled? This appears to mo to be another move jbd make the worker' pay the piper/ 1 have it. fronJ-gobd authority that oiie baker in this town (and there are only two or three.) has been steadily increasing his' stock of flour for the past _month", anci at the present moment has" .enough to carry him on for another month or two. The rise in the price of bread' seems a bit of cheek on the part of . the Maisterton bakers, in trying to make the consumer pay the increase before they have had to pay any increase themselves. When the price drops, it is generally a monffi' after that the price of bread comes down, thus enabling the bakers to keep the price up until the new shipment comes m. Why do they "rise the price nowf There has been 110 flour coming into Masterton for the past week, so I cannot see why the bakers are asking for an Increase, in the price of bread ? The grocers have not risen the price of flour. Butter,, milk, cheese and cream are still the same'price, although the shipments are locked in, and the farmers are crying out that J they will be ruined Unless the strike is soon settled, and they can get their cheese, etc., Homo to the market. Yet hero are paying just the same price with country overflowing with farm produce for export. Just because there is a shortage of flour, up goes the price of bread. God help the- workers! No wonder they cry out for better conditions and more wages.—l am, etc., . FIFTY 808 A WEEK AND i FIVE KIDS. Masterton, November 3, 1913.