The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1915 THE LIVING WAGE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 20, 29 December 1915, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1915 THE LIVING WAGE.

It In interesting to ionrn tliirt :• Now South Wales Judge Ims made a. pronouncement, regarding the much-vexed question of the “living wage.” A IV-w| days ago His .Honor told the .hidnsfcria! Court at Sydney that Air justice Edmunds and he had- I men eoumderi an: the question of the inniiiiinm uago. They had arrived at the < oiiclm-'.e: .that owing to the general uncertainty created by the progressive eflceis olj the war and hy the groat •llnctlii’l'Ons | in prices tending as they did to a a .1 k-! on industrial unrest 1 ; and th< ugh, as matters stand at present, ami ". ith | the materials available. they could make no full and final dm laration, I thev had thought- that it might bo we! I if they were to make some in term prance,moment as a gtudo to the Board-; during vacation. They had, therefore, f Her r» good discussion, ■determine:! ..o empress the,;' view that, at pm•„"ul • the wage' lor ordinary laborers shock! h . is 1 Ui net hour. Bill 9d per day. pr L2 !:’• Od ;mr Wmk, | Other workers cannot claim e. Tignt j that their wages .are to rice above theoj laborers wage in, the same nroikortionio as before; that. His Honor said, way! a matter which the Boards must eofj aider. As to the great variate >isj

shown by Mr Knihbs's -tables, in tnc purchasing power of the sox ermgp, they are in themselves too 'vioirnl. their muses too obscure, js jtl ilmn iu-.| tni'e cofirse 100 um ertaiu .to mu hlcj the Court to roly upon theur' at” this time, even it tlio war and t'he course of events chonld not make ;t necessary; in some cu.m's to abandon their m-e.. However, hryon.d. what they bad said above, they could not go: the prospect J was too dark and difficult to.permitthem to attempt any conclusive deter-’ iniiiatiou. • 5 SUBSTITUTE FOODS. ... Some lighl i thrown on G'eriyiny's ■ condition as. regards food supplies by:, the advertisements in iiic i.t.-rtin.M'j ’j a'gcblali, which is a new •ot i almost as hmcji standing in ik; n\vu; country as The ’times in iH.nta.n. One; cannot help untieing (says the uyoneyi Daiiv Telegraph) the mini her oj r.nb-f siitute foods that are offered :£er sale ;. a list of them was made by an Stagiisii newspaper file other day. It is j |;rnn that-Germany has always .bceri a country ol “substitute ' t loons. on'l | clearly 'the Allies’ ' blockade has enormously increased their number. ’Artijicial jam and marmalade are acutely advertised. A ehenncai factory in Dresden offers f.P supply ft; P en lons of the stuff every -week, ami wan s travellers to push it. 'lucre is no explanation as to what this art-iffclal marmalade is made of. ir_,sul>sLit.ito, for whipped cream is advertised by j another chemical factory m I.J n, j the sale of the real cream being : for-j hidden. When, the yvar broke ■on 1 1 beans, roasted in- a. particular v. av. i with coffee; wore largely used: as a-i substitute for coffee, Making., a vlf-j tno of necessity, the "German deaSiu a pointed out how neurotic people might drink- a decoction of bean coffee- without ill-effects. Now we- have a subs.li'tnte- For . thi* semi-substitute, .even, beans bring no longer pvoenrabte. A | pound packet of it costs only (id, and it is highly recommended as very cheap and going a long way. Checso made of skimmed milk is advert, sod, as a substitute for icul cheese. Due, dealer offers oO’tons of it. It Is slight- ; !y Hat ami crushed.' ’a defeep, winch j enables him to offer it at ' 1 *n b ''| u . ; j This' substitute cheese, it. is'eff; Av.rg j ed, |k excollenu for working pAiptcj j and the poorer classes it has ciinto a cheesy taste. I here i$ also a’ substitute.’ icr oiFfM' polishing oak-floorL. W is 'liot.'oiV'ilt' 'all, : but;it ogives a high pollslv. TUd'same dedler, advertises' substitutes IV,r • -glycwnit* and other household oil?. noreven a cheap substitute lor beer.: has a' pleasant re min iitfent taste O'j malt, And W the ; color of the-hestMun-. jeh' 'beer. Finn Sly. i. wholesale, dealm*, in Frankfort advertises for largo ton-, signmeuts of vvooihm hoot soles, iur, which he is willing to .pay cash, ...j would seem that leather, too, is gvoiy , ing pretty scarce. ' , , '' • j