COST OF LIVING.
•We aa - e hearing a good, deal just now about the increased .cost of Jiving; but few people seem ta realise that wihile-
wages have MieiYfi-sod by over 23 per cent, since 1833,, the cost cf the neccs'sarics cf life .have shown' very littl' variation in that period. We have before ills a, copy of Gisbonic's "New Zealand," published twenty-four yearc. (ago. This 'shows that in 1888 the rent of a tour-roomed house was estimated at about J2s per week, lirca.l was sold in Auckland ait from (Id to 7d the 41b loaif; beef, 3d to 5d per lb ; mutton, ljd to 'ld; butter, Is to Is 3d ; tea, Is l()d to. 2s lOd ; .sugar, 3d to 4d; cheese, 5d to 7d; potatoes, As to 5s per cwt. It will thus be seen tlir.t for the chief iii;c.eea?aries of life the prices to-day are very little .higher [ than they were twenty-four years ago.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10673, 1 July 1912, Page 4
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156COST OF LIVING. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10673, 1 July 1912, Page 4
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