THE COST OF LIVING.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10688, 15 July 1912, Page 4

THE COST OF LIVING.

[To The Editor.]

Sir, — 'Kindly permit meto 1 .say a-, word or /two in reference to the Conb of Living Coiwmistion in Wellington, in ainswer to Mr John I>. Cameron, of Maste-i'toi*. Yew paper says that ho found that there was no appreciable .rise in fioccttufFs. You could got a good lunch 1 for Is, and :it bad neverbeen cheaper, and he could feed big •men as cheap to-day tea be did some' ears ago; 'tbat wages' bad gone up 25 •per cert. Mir 'Cameron must be one of those .men who impart© from cheap* ,

countries, for I may tell 'him that seven yearls ago factory butter was lOd, and is to-day Is 3d; flbiw seven years ago Sv 6d, to-day 12s Sd; potatoes, os ffvdb, to-day ICs;. 71b salt, 9d„ to-day lOd; ibacon 6d 'to 7d, to-day, lOd to Is. He says the cost has not gene -up 1 . Compare these pr-ices, and say nothing for raisins,, currants, tea, sugar, meat, ch'afF, oat®, wSieat, cartage fares, and dozens of other things. In regard to*menireceavfmg 35s per week. This is a good starvutcon wage for* the presentday. Boys from Bc ; me will grow to be men some t?ay, Mr Cameron. Thanking yon for xpvtv kindness.— I am, etc.,

J. NICOLLS. iAafredton, July 12, 1912.