TRAINING SOLDIERS
RELATIVE COST IN TWO CAMPS.
A table contained in the annual report of the Munitions arid ' Suppliee Dop»Ttmont, presented in Parliament yesterday, indicates the. cost per man, per day. for food in tho two important training camps, and illustrates a. slightly upward tendency, which the Minister (Hon. A. M. Myers) is satisfied is reasonable when- regaid is had to'tiie inorea?ed prices now_ generally ruling and to tho superior quality of tho 6upphes purchased. The figures are as follow:— . ' ' .
■ : ■ ■ Feath^rsfnnL ±T©nfchfljn . reatnerston. j.renmam 1916. , ' Camp. Camp. s. ;d. .- s. d. . 1 ■■■ January ...-..../ 1 6.006 1 5.5 •■ February ...... 1 6.023 1 5.5 March :. M 7.739 1-7.5 April ;.. .1 7.732 1 7.5 . May .....; 1 7.871' 1 8 . June .■■ > 1 7.952. 1 .5.75 . July.'-.-. :. 'I 8.259 1. 6.5 . August 1 8.259 1 6.75, . , September 1 7.577 17 . October ......... 1 7.535- ■• 1 5.8 ' November 1 8.354 1 7.25 December 1- 8.867 1 9 '. • ■ 1917. ■ •■■■ •■'• ; January.: 1 7.642 1' .6.5 February 1 7.592 1 7.375 March '1 7.733 1 7.25 ,■ .April. .1 7.981 '. 1 8 ' . May 1 8.24* 1 8.25
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Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 27, 1 August 1917, Page 3
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176TRAINING SOLDIERS Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 27, 1 August 1917, Page 3
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