COST OF LIVING

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10682, 9 July 1912, Page 6

COST OF LIVING

MASTERTQN FARMER'S OPINION.

At the fitting ol the Cost of Living Commission in Wellington,, Mr Donald John C'amerom, farmer, Masterton, -said itliat lie had .found that there was no appreciable rise in foodstuffs. You could' get a good luncli for Is, 'and at had never been cheaper than that. Ii did not seem, to cost liim any mors to feed lii® men to-day rthan It did) some years ago, .hut the a-iua in .their .wages was about 25 per cent. in the last seven or eight years. He had had a anan w.hom he was giving 35s ,per week, a cottage, .milk, .butter, and firewood 1 , and that main had left he was asked to load haled liay on a truck. Now the witness Jiad a man from England, who was astonished a't .how much (better the conditions were here' than in England. This employee put his money in the bank, and .would not he long working for witness or anyone else; he would have a farm of his own, and would: be a success. He thought that there would Toe openings among the cow'farmers for iboys if the Government would consent to their importation 'froon England.