MEALS AND COLLARS!
A RESTAURANTS METHODS. l “My experience is that you will‘ get as cheap a meal in \Vellington as in ‘ any other part .‘of thje World,” re-i marked Mr W. A. W. Grenfell during the hearing‘ of the dispute between the Wellington Gas Company and its em‘-_ ployees before the Conciliation Council yesterday. The Council was discussing the question of the rise in the cost of living. Mr L. Glover declared that a meal ‘that before the war could be obtained for (id was new charged for at 1/6 or 2/. In certain restaurants a worker was refused adm‘issio_n unless he were a white collar. How was he to get. on in such eireiiinstlanees?
Other assessors expressed the opinion that while the prices of meals had :I.d\'anced <=.«.::‘:sib<3;'a'uly the quality of the food had fallen.
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Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3413, 18 February 1920, Page 5
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