Cost Of Living
Sir, —-I trust that the Canterbury Housewives’ Union will make available to the public the figures on which it bases its assertions that “no family can maintain the accepted standard of living” on present wage awards. I am not for dictating how people should spend their money, but on the standards of modest comfort in which I myself live the family cited as having an income of £1073 a year—or £2O 10s a week—could cover their necessities and still have £4 10s a week in hand. No doubt all the amenities of- the modern home are indispensable in “the accepted standard of lining,” and so. possibly, time-payments make heavy demands on that apparently comfortable surplus. But if one wants to save it is possible to deny oneself certain desirable luxuries for which one cannot readily pay, instead of deploring the inadequacy of a niggardly wage structure—which must be one of the highest in the world.— Yours, etc., BOADICEA. October 20, 1960.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29342, 22 October 1960, Page 3
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