King Country Chronicle. Saturday, Sept. 23, 1911. THE COST OF LIVING.

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 398, 23 September 1911, Page 4

King Country Chronicle. Saturday, Sept. 23, 1911. THE COST OF LIVING.

One of (hr niesi interest ing subjects alluded to in the .Budget, v.-as the proposal to :i})]sojnt, a Koyai c\>n;inj sion which would investigate living conditions, as far aa New <~ealand is affected. The Premier staled that the consensu? of opinion amongst i authorities was that, while (he proj duetion of gold bad incrc:u ! <\l. iln* rost i of goods had al?o increased, and this

| pressed very heavily upon I I'm* poorer : members of the eonnuunity. Phe ] solution does not wholly lie "w (lie nolo {question. Tariffs may, and often do. ! press very hardly upon the working ! members of (he community. ard :ill over the world to-day l.here is a fedin/.); of unrest, attributable to i hehardships indicted by existing conditions, In America the frcc-int is being extended to include boots and (shoes and farmers' appliances, and paper products are. under the recinrocily arrangement now propose ) with Canada. t.o eome in at very low | duties, if net a! ( ope! her iiee. Tin'

(question is one (ha; touches every | j pocket, and inU rests < very manned | man and woman. How is it (Ma! \ meat, hult.er, provision:-, fiuif, vei'.c tables, boots, shoes ami clothing' are j dear when wages have risen ;.o wliaf looks a comfortable Vvd? Rents. i especially in nowly-: e; (led districts, j are unreasonably high, audi oli'er a i serious stumbling 'dock where employers are wanting men who will ; settle down permanently. In Te K int.! j alone there have been numerous ca.se of married men willing to settle hero if only decent accommodation had > been available, and thai trade has ; sutlered in consequence of no cottages being available there it- no donbt. J We alluded the other day to the tax a- I tion of unimproved values as ofTering j one possible solution of the scarcity | |of houses, but, no one won! ! claim ! ! that a different form of rating, would ; alone solve the Jiving question, j Some alleviation of the taxation upon I the necessaries ot life, whether it i means taking oil' the duties on ag-'i-

cultural products .".mi machinery, upt.ii boots ami clothing, or whatever chuir- likely to make on uiifnir bunion upon our settlers am; our country people: generally, will inve to be sidered in the near future. it is u: (- - let's cry in;: out that the com fry di*- | tricts want population, when people j are driven away from it through lack of aecommodat ion an-! the high iv:;l of living. It may he (lie freight;: charged o;i the railway:-- have seme intimate connection with 111 i:' vital question. But whatever it he, 1 hematter is a very live issue, and the statesman who can offer a solution will deserve (ho gratitude of (lie mass of the people.

Miss Pine's now quarto , ,t school and music will b<j , f pichvr ' : | ■ Air .1. R. (I; aiiaiii off err. ,>on Thurrday aft< moon vol ' ...; rehab) I, ion at. !ho rorm! : : -n----:)ii i auj1I|-: ,- ji j r [; j . . ;:ao•'iMpnt 'i"r ( bi ai a ot.ory !'' ice. mid Oil < r[.": a:,f : ; r 1,,'. '»!■. ■ l l>!<ic nay '.■ (i i l l ip S /utter- '• !'•' 'Mayor of Wii;no ;on I waited I'll by 0 depui a I jMjl o; i 0< iii. -V"l <.1)0 •><h< ; day. ;.• lOi.o Pa v,,. ; ! 1 y> r Wiltna.t. ho war dp,•..!>!< amnf Jet* that i'i'ty men moid o -V. n Wick and rh VI : at ..;)]•( . a ;P e "i.ratford- : «•(' ivi>i»-t o; . <0 it v number o; nvi s om) honored. have petitioned IP i it, ;hirwj:h M r Mac.Donald, 1 1 '-I't r I"' not tod during '•l'' :' <>i: 'lP : i-iP. that- out of the P" io: '] <>•>'." ho obtained from A ion noc! r ;: » w !u■) i !o restock the hike. ■ !>< y ;.i: .• that angling bo permit), o v.-iih.-i't license .for a Bear.r> :i! I hi ir opinion those are the only ni'-thoiir whereby t.ho lake can be suitably fi.i!))!i-'i and t.ho fish restored to their former quality. Surgeon-('olono! bunly declared that fully -Id per oont. of t.ho youth of Australasia vrrtc unfitted for efficient military service. hut. in the course of a very few y< arr, owing to the great improvement in national physique which woulii ho ('(Verted by compulsory tiainii);;, the percentage of unfits would ho vo;it.l)v reduced. * To dot.i", for t.ho forthcoming London woo! :-:de:; Kit), 000 bales have hoon received, of which -4'i,000 have boon forwarded direct to the manufacture;;:, leaving 127,500 bales —ineludine; a quantity held over—available for the sales. Two questions* by Mr Wilford to the Minister of Labour resulted in the pop it ion regarding Dominion Day holiday in the railway workshops and (!) dmary business establishments being iiiniie i'ic.'ir. The Minister of Labour stated that a full holiday will bo grauti d jr. the i ail way workshops on September i •>;!., 1 P'm ]ni on Day. It had Pi .ii oo rli'nnd from the legal ao f be.i". ii ( r that any shopkeeper who closed for the f»U day on Monday would bo em idyim: with law if ho did nei ease oa the statutory halfiwiidsty dm ir.;; i hat week.

The v* in! it anion fot.e lo bo held i'i (ho ; 'nn;•.vi':■ ;i(iona! Church on October "m: end Mh iii aid of the funds wji! lijsvr, amongst other attraction, stalls fnr ihr s:il,» of various articlcH .iin iui: lln- afternoon, and a concert. \vi!i lie given )ii (.ho evening. Tho various ladie:;'assoeiaf.ctl with the; feto are working hard and a highly successful and novel entertainment may he looked forward to.

Those interested in the formation of i ! 1 ori icw 11 oral Society in To Kuiti, are i rounded id (he meeting which is to lu b<dd to-niuht at. 7.!!0 o'clock in (lie Vvaiieiiio County o(Jico. It in hoped that a large amount of intereHt will be taken in ihis movement.

A cable from Sydney states that the iale Cardinal Moran's will executed in ISSS, leaves the estate to the person afler his death, appointed Archbishop of Sydney. The total assetß are sworn a £IBO4, and debts £2109.

According to Mr Arnold, M.P., the purchasing power of a sovereign in Kngalnd is less to-day by J'a (id than .( was in IKIMi, and 2 a less than in I ] 0(1(1,

The latest departmental return allows that there arc (5215) co-operative workers employed by the Public Worltß Pepartinent throughout the Dominion.

Snow fell heavily in the country about TaShape on Wednesday. Passengers travelling in the Soutn-bound At ain Trunk express frequently indulged in snow-balling at the various stopping places. The whole country n:ip clothed in a mantle of white, and presented a beautiful appearance. deferring to l\lr 1,. M. Isitt's speech ! in the S louse during the Financial ! ioh;st< , the l\venmg Post says:—"lf ! Is iVi r I; ill) js not able to fill Mr Taylor's place he at least brings a picture: quo vocabulary into politics. liis speech had a smack of the pulpit ami the tea-meeting in parts, but it was ;>'freshing after a run of dull ii t! i ranee, colourless, listless." it is stated that as a result of the exceptionally fine season, and the exceptional prices secured for dairy output! . p; ices of land in the southern pat i. of Taraual< i will advance £5 per acre by the <aid of the season. As the best land is now commanding £SO to '.'(is per acre, if is hard to know how prospective purchasers of land, at. the enhanced figures of land, are going !o pay tin ir way. In the lioiise on Wednesday, Sir Joseph Wani gave notico to move a motion authorising the Government to .loin vcith Canada in establishing a mail service between Auckland and Yancoeve:. The contract is for five yt ai:and the payment by Now Zealand is. not, to exceed £.20,000 per annum. The vessels are. to be of not ',( : s .'nan (iMKIU tons, with lirst-claBS p: : enger riccommodntion, and fitted v. i:)i s efrigorating machinery. The joi.e,a-i-y between the two ports is not to ,\. ied J'.) days. The motion was ca" ro d on Thursday.

i here are people in New Zealand \v!v> want, Socialism here and now; who are impatient with politics as a means to an end; who are resentful of the restraints incidental to ordered progress; who aro antagonistic to all' methods and movements about which t hey have not first been consulted; ami who when they are called into consultation can never be brought into agreement. They call themselves Hoeia 1 ists. hut ihoy are in reality An,-schists or Jshmnelitotv Professor - ' ' , is.