An unexpected incident yesterday occurred which furnished a somewhat striking commentary on tho " prico of bread" controversy. The sheet anchor of the " reduction in price party" has been " Carlertou." In that township bread has been sold at sixpence a loaf whilesevenpence and eightpence-has been charged in Masterton, Carterton bakers, it was declared, had flourished fike a green bay tree on sixpenny loaves, and one of them had even been solicited to start in Masterton to be nominated and run against Chamberlain Bros, for the Bread and Butter Plate. This Carterton baker, however, refused the overture, and now, horror of horrors, another sixpenny loaf baker in the same locality, instead of retiring on his comfortable profits has filed his schedule on his uncomfortable losses, just as he was being loudly called into the witness-box by the reduction of price party to show that he was making handsome profits .by his sixpenny ven-■ture.';&.-f'y '■■'■'.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2298, 18 May 1886, Page 2
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