THE COST OF LIVING

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 285, 29 May 1912, Page 5

THE COST OF LIVING

THE ROYAL COMMISSION. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Tuesday. The Royal Commission set up to inquire into the cost of living will meet iu Wellington on Friay morning. Mr. J. W. Collins, chief clerk in the Labor Department, has been appointed secretary to the Commission.

A meeting .of the advisory board of the Employers' Federation 'took place to-day to consider the question of the commission appointed to inquire into the cost of living. Two resolutions were adopted: (1) That the advisory board, while ready to welcome any practical inquiry into the problem of the alleo-ed greater cost of living, regrets that the personnel generally of the present commission, and the fact that no political economists or statisticians of any standing are members, compels the board to recognise the commission's futility; (2) that as the increased cost of living is a subject of world-wide interest and importance, and not peculiar to New Zealand, the Employers' Federation considers it advisable that representation should be made to the Imperial Government that a commission consisting of leading British political economists, statisticians, and others of expert knowledge, should be set up to discover the basic causes and that the New Zealand Government be requested to defer the local inquiry until the information is available.