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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 37, 7 November 1919, Page 4

A meeting of Hie United Christian Association ami prohibition workers was held in the Petone 'Weslcyau Church on Wednesday'evening. There was a jjood attendance, and the Kev. A. Blair presided. During the evening addresses on prohibition were given by the -Mayor of Petons (Mr. J. W. -M'Ewan), the Kev. A. iiiair, and Messrs. Hunter ami Pipe'. An interesting account of the cost of living in Ir'nince is given in the following extract from a. letter written by « woman rrs diner iu that country at tho present time. "The heat is terrible, it is hwniri'j ;ip everything. There arc no vogola'i!.--. Tlio price oi' goods is causing nr;rest all over Fnmce. In Troycs on fMnr-'lay a band of abr.-ut: 100 men and wneen entered n hat shop and sold Ihe hnis by nuelion. Fats marked JM 13s. I'«l. were v>ld at Ps. Id,, and the money h:>eil''d over lo the shopkeeper- with a warnin? not. to ran np prices. The band wont, from shoo to simp, and in one instnee prfd fowls marked 1(1'. Bd. for 2s. (id. Tiler threatened to iMrpy overyth'nj; if not: albivd to held thes" auctions. Many of Hie shops closed down, and in Paris s'ior>- were for bvo days to avoid Hip '.mie onl-broilc." fit,,- I,r tnrnipl"s of ro c es or lilv M-n v-illrv --Vl )'i" fnnrVni lov'' 1 , in a smart weddi»f. M''ss Murray. Yice-J>r,.,-1 Vlori,!, "Willis Sfrepi, Wellington. -A,1,4 Latest renorfs show rrroat scarcity in Tinvs' plofV<\ flo'i'l- <l»liv. buy v onr boy n smart sports suit, at !!ss. to 555. Geo. Fowlds Ltd., Manners Street.— ,