THE HIGH COST OF LIVING.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1740, 26 July 1917, Page 3

THE HIGH COST OF LIVING.

THE MAORI VIEW-POINT. The member for the Southern Maori Districts, .Mr C. Parata, dealt in a manner characteristic and to the point with the high cost of living daring Ids speech on the Ad-dress-in-Reply debate in the House of Representatives last night. Mr Parata was particularly severe mi the trusts, which, he said, caused al! (he (rouble. "Why Humid the trusts come j-mv,” sain Mr Parata, “when the mothers and --i.-im-s of the I joys at llm tron 1 nr-' making sacrifices while the mM.lictW-yrc away ’ While i heir V.'.v.'ks ,i !■;> [ a "ms 1 bey make us pay ucit bu,'n pen c ■ 11 1 Imre rs one neglect or tic N Aimed Oeveruniont this is A Put tin- (iovcnimmii has now allowed (be ppms- to so w high that it will he nscies,- ' Then Air Parata went on A speak very strongly about butler. “V-. liy. the butter we are eating,"’ lie said, “well, you eat butler and bread and you are satisfied; but the batter now! I have been brought up mi a farm, and .1 know that the butter we eat is not pure butter. The butter you put on your bread now, it slips down. (Laughter). 1 question if it were analysed it isn’t pure butler. Proper butler has a rich taste, 'von can go mi eating tins Imlier and nothing else.'' In reply In an interjection, Air Parata said he lived on mutton birds, (Laughter). He went on to speak of the bul-ler-fat levy. lie was talking to a farmer who did not mind the levy. No, it served him all right when butter was Is 5d per il>. Even at Is 2d it paid him. Why he could sit by and see ihe cows milked on this! Of course, all the fanners growled. But they made more all the same. He got a good price for Ids butler, and surely it did not cost more to main' the grass grow. (Laughter). But this cost of living. What with (he high rent, the high butler, and the high meal, he did nub know how the people lived at all. (Laughter). He knew a man who had butler and toast onec a week, on Sunday. (Laughter). The price of everything was so much ihal il was driving people to the —to the Bankruptcy Court. His idea was that the Oovernmenl had not properly tackled the thing.—N.Z, Times.