EGGING THEM ON SIR,—May one congratulate Leslie Adrian on the
attack on the egg marketing board, which remarks apply to all these boards? It cannot be proclaimed too loudly and too often that these ar' producers' monopolies with the sole object of benefiting the producer whatever their propagandists say. It is ironical that a Government which pays lip service to competition and introduces a Monopolies Bill to foster it, surrenders to a pressure group and creates more monopolies. Not only are these boards monopolies, but their anti-consumer efforts are helped by import duties, quotas, etc., introduced by the Government to help them, not the poor con- sumer. An investigation into these by Leslie Adrian would be revealing.
When will political parties learn that they will gain more votes by keeping down the cost of living than by surrendering to pressure?—Yours faithfully, Bale's Mead, West Porlock, Minehead E. B. ANDERSON
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