SOLVING THE PROBLEM.
Fifty families in the State of Jersey have banded together to combat the high cost of living by co-operative house-keeping. They have subscribed enough money to obtain a central kitchen with modern equipment, to employ a corps of skilled chefs, and to deliver the cooked food in motor cars fitted with heating apparatus. There is a department of housecleaning, ten maids going from house to house daily, and a laundry is being planned. The expense is to be divided on a pro rata basis, and.the estimates made anticipate a saving to the fifty families of £1,500 a year, besides the advantages of wholesale buying. The total cost of rent, domestic workers, fittings and motor cars is set dowh at ,£3,200, while fifty workers for fifty separate families would cost about £4,7°° a year. The committee does not state whether any family has been selected for the honour of first call from the daily dinner waggon.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1097, 15 May 1913, Page 4
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158SOLVING THE PROBLEM. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1097, 15 May 1913, Page 4
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