A LOAF OF BREAD

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 90, 24 June 1946, Page 2

A LOAF OF BREAD

COSTS THIRTY-EIGHT SHILLINGS FOOD PRICES IN GREECE "Yesterday a loaf of bread was £1 18s, and an oke of meat (less than 31tas) was £7 10s, writes a member of one of CORSO's relief teams now at work in Salonika. "Of course we are spending as little money as possible, but some expenses cannot be avoided. Yesterday I had to buy three tons of firewood for a school. Not so many days ago it would have cost £lO. This time it cost £SO, although we went many miles there and back into the mountains to get it." Another CORSO team worker writes that an egg now costs 6s or 7s to buy. His last haircut was ss, and any sort of a meal at all will cost from 30s to £2. Reports of the activities of CORSO's relief teams in Greece are beginning to arrive regularly at CORSO Headquarters in Wellington. From all accounts the members of the teams are fit and well and have already settled down to work. The need for such person-to-person relief work is apparently as great, if not greater, than anticipated. The raising of money to pay allowances to workers is the first objective of CORSO's present campaign. Donations may be sent to CORSO, Box 11, Government Buildings Post Office, or to the nearest CORSO District Committee.