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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 159, 4 January 1912, Page 8

USE ONLY NO HARD WORK. (Mud* by R«OKITT'«|

I Coffee-houses and dining rooms of the humbler kind, which existed' in London in great numbers years ago, are rapidly disappearing, says the Daily Telegraph. INo doubt tea-shops are .taking their (place very largely, but there are ©then reasons why they find it difficult to keep I afloat. Amongst thorn is the fact that 'nearly every article of food, still supplied to customers at the price of ten I years ago, has risen in some .cases" 20 per cent. Rents,, rates, and local taxea | of every kind, moreover, have risen, ibufe wages have been practically stationary. The London Coffee,, Restaurant and Dining Room Keepers' Trade Protection Society, has existed for ten years, and the reason of its establishment was a crisis similar to the present one. Ten yeara ago prices were very high. Ttoi Society was formed to make a protest against them, and some success followed. The Society is again making an appeal to din-ing-room Iseepers to rise up and make a bid for a free ibreafcfast-table»