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Horowhenua Chronicle, 11 September 1911, Page 3

Some persons have said recently that titoe cost of living has not imaterially appreciated. That statement was made in Parliament. Occasionally one hrars the more modified remark that if living is dearer wages aire higher, nnvl that the people at large do not 7eel the pinch. Against these and similar statements (says the Dune-Jin Star) we put tilras one solid .fact: That the slaughtering at the -abattoirs lias not' increased dn the same ratio as the population. The mother who used to buy 101b of chr,r.fc wihe-n tb&y were 3d .per lb nlw makes olb or Gib do. That is the explanation, and it is. significant