'COST OF HIGH LIVING'
COMMENT BT PRESIDENT OP
FARMERS' UNION
(From Our Special Beporter.) V FEDIDING, This Day. The view that increased production means a* decrease in the cost of living was endorsed by Mr. G. L. Marshall^ President of the .Wellington Provincial Fanners' Conference, iv his presidential Address at the opening of the annual conference to-day. He pointedly remarked : "The increase in the cost-of living- (or the cost ot high living) is closely connected with the amount of work done by the community: as a whole. Until supply has caught up with demand, the world over, the cost of what we require will not lessen, and tire best and quickest way to straighten things out would be for everybody to set to and work with renewed "energy, getting the best results for the hours worked lor tie mutual benefit of all. The less work and more pay system can only result in making it more difficult for the- population to live in comfort. THE THIRTEEN GUINEA SUIT. Mr. Marshall admitted that there wa* a strong suspicion that- the public was being exploited regarding woollen goods On this point he said: "It seems that the time has come when we ought to try to manufacture more of our primary- products here, instead of exporting them all in the raw state. Surely the time has coma when we should -make all the blankets and cloth we require here instead of paying freight both ways and paying a high price for imported woollen goods. Many of us wonder how it is that wo have to pay about thirteen guineas for a suit of clothes, when we know that we only get about ten shillings for the wool which is requised to make the suit. How is the difference made up?^ It seems that an enormous profit must be made in some of the processes that the wool goes through. A company is being floated in Wanganui to manufacture wool, and I believe another company is starting in the Wairarapa, so that evidently the public is waking up to the fact that it is time we moved in this direction."
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Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 123, 25 May 1920, Page 6
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