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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 319, 15 October 1915, Page 5

MILITARY FUNERAL

“D” 7t!h W.W.C. Regiment will furnish. a Firing Party of 1.N.C.0. and 12 men for the funeral of the late Chief Hiraka Terango at Moawhango on SUNDAY, 17th inst. Other Territorials and Senior Cadets are invited to attend. Parade at the Drill Hall, Taihaoe, at 9.45 a.m. Conveyances will be provided to take troops to Moawhango. BY ORDER R. S. TUCKEY, Area Sergt.-Major. Taihape, 15/10/T5.

MONSTER Social and Dance Will be held at MOAWHANGO, MONDAY, OCT- ISth . MISS WH ENUAROA' S CANDIDATURE Gents, 2/, Ladies, 1/. R. J. DOWNING, Secretary. RECRUITING SERMON. f ST. MARGARET'S CHURCH, TAIHAPE, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 17th, 1915. At 7 p.m. Members of various military bodies are asked to attend in uniform. TEXT: Let Me Die the Death of the Righteous; and Let. My Last End he as His! —Numbers XXIII, v. 10. Preacher: W. F. STENT, Vicar. Diminished purchasing power of money i s tellingly shewn by the Government Statistician (Mr 1L Fraser) in a table which gives the loss of 2s 4gd for the average of the four centres during the June quarter of 1915. In other words, what one could buy for £1 in 1306 cost Cl 2s U>d m 1915. Taking the cities individually,, the amount cf money required to buy what could he bought for £1 n the ; year s 1909 to 1913 is: In Wellington,. £1 4/10id; Auckland. £1 l/8?d; Christchurch. £1 I/U;d; and Dunedin, £1 1/11. This- is a practical proof of the rise in the cost of living. In {reprices of groceries, cyairy produce, and meat, the increase of all three combined in Wellington is 13.20 per cent., for August 14 last over July 31, 1914,