RE COST OF LIVING.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 161, 1 April 1908, Page 9

RE COST OF LIVING.

Sirj-PWiir you allow hie spaco .to make a ; fevV"remarks"r'o; .the above. 'As wo have 'hear'd : .a-groat amount about tho great/cost' of living in .Wellington, during tile present; dittiugß ; of. tho,.Arbitration Court, 1 v. isji to show Tvhat, can -bo ,dono with economy ancl, good/management.,,, I, know, a. family, oi, tour in AYcllmgton," nil adults, viz., two men , ' .ami , two- women, ..who.'kopt an,- .account, of. tlipir' total cost of-', living for. 12,inonths, anu tho. total .was ,£39 or. 35.. Oil. per week each. They', were as healthy as any of their.neighbours: . This,family, does not, believo in, a great quantity ,ol meat,.-. 25.; ud. per week, but' plenty' of. fruit. I am of a strong opinion;' that thero. aro a great number ot families iu "Wellington that, ought and.could ho better off if they, studied cconomy a little liiorc, and I do ~ not believe ill this, continually dissatisfied spirit of tho working 'class wanting higher,-. Wages, for ' tho. result, is' to raise , tho cost of .'living ' And everything elso. There ,wHI ; have, to bo a 'stop before-long and sooner,.tho,better, for everyone. Thui/king you. in.anticipation, am, etc.;. . . ■ . 'ECONOMY.. ■ March ,30. , •.. : (Ourcbrrespondoint's figures'certainly aro startling.^"' Of ;'courso he - does not_ include, that very, important item • in'; Wellington—<■ houso rent.) -. ■