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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2677, 25 January 1916, Page 5

The Right Hon. \V. F. Massoy, interviewed in Auckland, said (reports a Press Association message) that in no part of tlie British Empire occupied by Europeans is the cost of living so low as in New Zealand. t Care must be taken liot to interfere with the productions of our own .country or with the supplies from abroad. The aim of the Government has been to keep the country prosperous, and see -that if the people had to pay more for commodities they were in a position to do so. So far no serious pinch had been experienced. lie believed if we had fewer croakers we would havo, a. correspondingly small number of smrkers. *

Mrs. Vf. Anderson, of Geraldine, who has a son at tho front, has just undergone a very painful experience, states ,tho Timaru "Herald." Mrs. Anderson had heard ,from her son that he had been wounded, but that he had recovered and was returning to the trenches. She wrote two letters subsequently to him on September 2S and October 5, but theso were both returned a few days ago to her by the dead letter office, and marked "Reported killed." Naturally, this was a great shock to tho family, and the uncertainty as to the truth of the Teport accentuated the anxiety. A telegram was at once sent to tho Minister of Defence, and after a delay of a day and' a half a reply was received as follows: —"Minister of Defence directs reply 6/401, James Anderson, not officially reported killed. Will cablo Esynt Base Records." On Wednesday Mrs. Anderson received a long letter from her son, dated in November. Ho was very anxious to know why he had not received any letters from home.

India is spending £20,000,000 in buy. ing the wheat not needed for consumption in India to sell to the United Kingdom-