COST OF LIVING
BRITAIN AND NEW ZEALAND MR. MASSEY’S COMPARISON “The statements one hears that the cost of living is higher here than in Groat Britain are ridiculous nonsense,” said Mr. Massey in the course of his speech in reply to the civic welcome yesterday afternoon. “In the ordinary necessaries of life,” said the Prime Minister, “such as meat, butter, bacon, honey, tea and sugar, many of which pay heavy shipping charges over thousands of miles, the prices are very high at Home. There is no duty on sugar in New Zealand, unless it comes from a foreign country, and the duty then is so small as not to affect the price. There is a heavy duty on tea and sugar in England; they are -double the price paid here. “We do not know how well off v.e really are here,” added the Prime Minister. “While 1 have the utmost respect for the cradleland of the race, I must say we are ten times better off.”
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Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 105, 29 January 1924, Page 6
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