COST OF LIVING IN NEW ZEALAND.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 9 June 1910, Page 3

COST OF LIVING IN NEW ZEALAND.

To tlio Editor. Sir,-ft is a idiom need tl Kit the. price of tobacco is to be raised in New Zealand, and tlio ma'ttcr will be discussed at a conference alt Wellington early in -July. This may not appear to he a very serious matter, hut to the man who, after office hours, enjoys his pipe it is a matter of some moment. Tint not only is the price of tobacco foing np, the cost, of the necessaries of life . is also being enhanced. Boots are b much dearer than they were, and v although the shoenwiker may think lie is temporarily reaping a hnivest he will find that people who have not. done v> before, wi 1 [ study economy in the future. Yon man'ifncturo your own boots in New Zealand, and yet your charges are ridiculously hicrh. Why in South Africa, where boots n.nd shoes, and even leather, are imported. tip-+op nraeefullv made shoes may bo Ind for l is Gd, and boots from anything from 18s (Id to 'Jos. The Customs wnv coiifrniitiilate themselves upon the-ir vigilance, but there are some persons who know how to evado even the lynx-eyed Government ofli- * rial. There cer'tainly to he i'j "something rotten' in the state of Denmark."—T am, etc., HUMIIT/ni PTE'. Levin. .Ttmo 7, 1910.