COST OF LIVING IN SOUTH AFRICA
DEBATE IN PARLIAMENT.' (Rec. September 18, 7.55 p.m.)' Cape Town, September 17. In the Union Assembly 'a motion regarding the cost of living was carried after a Labour amendment had been negatived. After a mass meeting of protest against the high cost of living, the crowd paraded before Parliament House. General Smuts addressed them and promised that the Government would do its best to solve legitimate grievances." TheGovernment was in honour bound to prevent the export of foodstuffs required in the Union, but it would be a dog-in-the-manger policy to preveat the surplus going to feed England.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ■' l
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 304, 19 September 1919, Page 7
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106COST OF LIVING IN SOUTH AFRICA Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 304, 19 September 1919, Page 7
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