"W. A. Hunt," writing to the Morning Post, suggests that
one cause of the disproportion between the price of wheat and bread is "the immense amount of bad debts which bakers are subjected to." Nor, he adds, "do I believe that any remedy can be efficacious except by a law similar to that which secnrespublicaus from bad debts—preventing recovery by law of
i debts incurred n tippling; the effect of which would be, that the bakers' trade would be entirely a ready money trade, and the price would be from i 25 to 30 per cent lower than it s according to the present system of credit. . . . If a judge in one of the County Courts were able to nonsuit a baker claiming more than 10 shillings from a customer, bread would soon approximate in price to wheat."
The Liverpool Town-Council have resolved to appoint an agent in London, with a salary of 6001., to transact the corporation common law and Chancery business i
; it s expected that this will result in a great saving of expense.
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