COST OF LIVING
LAND VALUES,
By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, Tuesday. Giving evidence before the Cost of Living* '-Commission, Edward Banka, farmer 1 , stated that the price of land at Matamata, which was nearly all dairy country, had advanced forty per cent', in the last ten years. The difficulty was in getting good families to do the milking, G. L. Peacock, land agent, said that suburban lands had doubled and quadrtip.'cd and rural lands had increased very much, indeed, in some cases fifty per cent, during the last ten or twenty years, cases land was higher than i'Mtijuld be for legitimate farming. made their living bj worjniigTjfe land for two or three vear» and tfien .Jelling out. ( Auckland, Last Night. Henry., Green, representative of the Wtftersid* Workers' Union, gave evidence concerning the alleged coal and fish rings. The Commission adjourned at on» o'clock out of respect to the latt 'Si*. John Logan Campbell.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 309, 26 June 1912, Page 5
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152COST OF LIVING Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 309, 26 June 1912, Page 5
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