28 DECEMBER 1974, Page 5

More coming?

Sir: When this country finally legislated to change to decimal currency, the • results produced by that conversion were all-round increases in retail values; the most unjustifiable (and unseemly) of these increases concerned sudden upsurges in food prices, so the relevant question now is whether or not unscrupulous traders will be permitted to create moreunfair price rises using, as a pretext, the metrication of weights and measures of food. Or, to put it in a nut (or egg) shell: When our decimal cash became law, Higher costs were the offspring it bore; Most inept of that brood

Were the price leaps of food —

Once it's metric will bad eggs hatch more?

F. S. Flood 19 Kelbume Road, Oxford