Evening journal., 1916-11-22
AUSTRALIAN FOOD
SYSTEM IS URGED
n. Commissioner Predicts
ii Would Bring Drop in
Cost of Living
NO FLUClUATION
IN PRICES POSSIBLE

NEW YORK. Nov. 22.--If New NorF
should experiment with the Austral
ian system Of state and municipal
regulation OF food commodities there
would be substantial and immedi
ate downward trend in the cost OF
living. in the opinion OF p. f. Quinn
commissioner representing the gov
ernment Of New South Wales In TINS
city. oe
The housewife in Sydney pays 81
cents a mound for butter and knows
that there can be no fiuctuation IRON
,hat rate without the permission oi
Inc government In this city the
housewife reads today's quotation OF
41 cents for butter hoping that II
will not Jump a nickel pound through
Purchasers Of cheese in Sydney pay
only ts IA or 10 cents a pound, De-
cause the government has ordered re-
Gently a reduction OF cents on thls
nonuiar dairy product Whole mix
rheese brings "a 1-2 cents a pound IN
New York a nat increase OF 5 cents
aver the quotations in November
3qfb In the large cities Of the Anti
,odes eggs are selling around 20 cents
a dozen. Here storekeepers get as
birh as 81 cents retail for hennery
brown eggs from Pennsylvania and
nearby towns.
Recognizes Regulation.
Australia recognizes that the only
way TO prevent the undue increase OF
food prices Is adequate regulation
said MIR Quinn yesterday In his once,
II East Forty street IN AUS
tralia we believe that a government
which cannot control the market quo
tafioas on food necessities for the
benefit Of It's people is not living up
to lis obligation as a democracy. Al
though our commonwealth Is passing
through an abnormal period OF war
sfress. when food prices tend to rise
The people of Australia are getting
their food staples much cheaper than
The inhabitants Of New York
New South Wales has a state
bakery which furnishes two-pound,
thirty-two-ounce. loaf OF bread TOT Z
cents. The master bakers OF Brooklyn
held a meeting few days ago to con
slider a plan to sell twenty seven
ounce loaf for 10 cents.
Mr. Quinn clinched his argument
in favor OF the Australian housewife
hy saving that she bought for cents
a 900 yard spool OF thread-iust
three times as large as the spool OF
fered for the same price IN New
York
"This illustration Is all the more re-
markabie" he added when YOU con-
slider that Australia grows no cotton
and that the nickel paid for a spoo
In sydney includes cost Of transpor'
tation from England or America and
profit to the retailer. 10 almost looks
as though people in this country enjoy
getting stung"
That dealers In foodstuffs chafe un-
der the strict regulations benenung
the consumers is shown by the mar
kef reports in "The sydney Dally
Telegraph" for October a. when
reached Mr.. Quinn's office yesterday
Tells of Protest Meeting.
~Members from the butter commit,
ices In the three eastern States VIII
meet in Melbourne Monday" the re-
mort saws. "to interview the Minister
Win regard TO the butter situation
IA h understood that the Prime Minis
ter's reported statement that the Aus
fraliar price will not be advanced mas
met with disapproval by many selling
agents and exporters. But that was
to be expected in existing circum-
stances"
Another paragraph tells of cheese
manufacturers holding a meeting 70
nrotest to the Prime Minister against
ibe cents a pound reduction ordered
bv the government in their COM
modify. , ,,i,.;o,
can do Mr.. Quinn mentioned the city
owned trawlers. cold storage plants an,
distributing depots in sydney whiel
have reduced the price Of fish to th'
consumer and taken this food stapl'
ont Of the hands Of group OF specu
lators formerly known AZ the "tisl
Ring" The government Of victoria ma
erected large cold storage chambers u
aid in regulating the price OF trozeI
meat in the interests Of the farmers an'