THE COST OF LIVING
PRONOUNCEMENT BY COURT THIS WEEK By Telegraph.—Press association. Auckland, April 9. In tho Arbitration Court to-day, Mr. T. Barter asked: “In view of tho increased cost of living has tho Court decided, in making a general pronouncement, whether, it will increase wages or tlie bonus?” Mr. Justice Frazer replied: “I don t know where you get the idea that there .lias heen an increase in the cost of living in tho last few months. I won’t bo drawn just now. A pronouncement will be made in tho course of a week.” He presumed Mr. Barter was looking at the food groups, but there were a lot of other things to take into consideration.
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Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 173, 10 April 1923, Page 8
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117THE COST OF LIVING Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 173, 10 April 1923, Page 8
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