COST OF LIVING
AUCKLAND EVIDENCE. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. At the Cost of Living Commission today Ernest Arthur Craig, secretary of Craig, Ltd., coal merchants and carriers, said that the statement that outside persons could not get coal at the pit was incorrect. There was no such thing as a bond among the Auckland Coal Dealers' Association. The crux of the whole matter was the extravagant living of the working man. He thought that the Dominion was near a very dangerous financial zone, owing to recklessly high extravagance in the standard of hvlng. William John Holdsworth said that the price of hoots had gone up very little considering the big advance in raw materials. Douglas Reed, grocer and butcher, said that there was a combine among the butchers to fix prices, and they were under penalty to sell at certain prices. He was the only free man.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 312, 29 June 1912, Page 5
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149COST OF LIVING Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 312, 29 June 1912, Page 5
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