CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3603, 2 September 1890, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

I • [TO THB EDITOR] Sir,—Your correspondent 'Pater, familial whose letter appeared in your Saturday's issue.askß for a reasonable explanation from the storekespersjw to'the cause of whit ho terras toW < the present rise in the price oi stores. . Without wishing to espouse the caußS of the storekeeper, I would -ask Paterfamilias whether he is justified ) in making such a general statement)' which has a tendency to injure the trade of our local storekeepers. Frotn enquiries it has been found that our principle' storekeepers have not, nor do not intend at the present to riio the prices of . any. of their goods.' fin the other hand, the Chinaman y only storekeeper where an advance of 0 price has been made./ For instance, ] brown sugar is quoted at tuelve t shillings; per bag (or'fourpence per 0 pound), and soft white at fourteen g shillings and sixpence per bag, (or „ sixpence per pound),. Flour is quoted at. 13s per cwt, or 26s per saok; now each of theso quotations by the o Chinaman are socae shillings in 0 advance of prices at other Btores. It is in justice to the local shopkeepers 0 that-these facia should bemads it known, ~ I consider they hare stood ir well by the'r customers in not taking 0 the opportunity tho present excite. . ment' is causing to "provide for the contingencies of a projective rise in a prices, The Chinaman, on the other hand, with his oheap labor is ever d on, tho alert to make the most of it, circumstances, and has been the only II man to rob his customers by n unwarrantably aid unjustifiably ad* rancing prices,r-lamj etc, .* g . EHQWRBR. r