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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3739, 10 January 1907, Page 4

The body of Mr W. A. Shaw, district engineer at Nelson, was found in his office yesterday afternoon. Dea'h is supposed to have taken place, in consequence of a fit, a week ago. Some interesting particulars o the cost of living in the olden days are given in the “Scrap Book.” If a man had a shilling in his pocket in the days of the Plantagenets, for instance, he could keep his family well supplied for a week. With that amount of money he could smile at the butcher, bow openly to the grocer, and look at the rest of the world as squarely in the face as did the village blacksmith. A sheep cost only a shilling. A cow was more expensive —six shillings would buy the best to be found in the market. In the fourteenth century pasture and arable lands were ridiculously cheap —a penny an acre for the former, and sixpence an acre for the latter being considered a fair annual rental. Draught horses were a drug on the market at three shillings each, and oxen at four shillings and sixpence. In the days of the Second Henry ten pounds vyould have equipped a farm witlf three draught horses, half a dozen oxen, twenty cows, and two hundred sheep, leaving a balance of eight shillings towards the payment of the rent. As for labour three half-pence a day was deemed good wages for ordinary labourers, and even at harvesttime, twopence a day was the highest sum expended.

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