POVERTY REPLACES LUXURY.
TRAGIC CHANGE IN SOUTH WALES. K PIANOS SOLD FOR £l2. By Telegraph.—-Pre** Assn.—Copyright. Received March 15, 8.45 p.m. London, March 15. Unemployment has produced a tragic change in thousands of South Wales homes, where war-time earnings enabled the people to live in comparative affluence. They furnished homes in some degree of luxury, and now forty thousand are idle in Rhondda Valley alone. Acute distress exists among large families. The Daily Chronicle states that the reverse of fortune is pitiful. Pianos have been sold for twelve pounds, and good kitchen chairs at a shilling each. A collier always insisted on buying the best available piano, and now the same homes are often reduced to bare requirements of furniture, and in some even these articles have begun to vanish. — Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 March 1921, Page 5
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135POVERTY REPLACES LUXURY. Taranaki Daily News, 16 March 1921, Page 5
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