COST OF LIVING

Evening Star, Issue 17720, 22 July 1921, Page 8

COST OF LIVING

Figures issued by the Clovenimout Statistician show that New Zealand ranks fourth on tho list for cost ot living, the increase being 67 per cent, over that in July, 1914., The United States is the cheapest place to live, according to the same authority, for the increase over July, 1914. is only 55 per cent. An interesting fact is that tire general superintendent of sixty-three large general stores operating in U.S.A. mining district? says;—“ The staple diet of the miner? used to be beans. Now it is clearly noticeable that the amount of beans has greatly decieased, and at the same time the volume of California canned goods purchased has tremendously increased.'’ The Pittsburg iron workers have been indulging their tancy for silk shirts, according to the “Pittsburg Post.’ In Omaha, where 10-cent meals were a specialty, in the cheap rpstmiiantr-, tho tide has shifted and runs in tho. direction of SO and 60-cent meals. One thing lias gone up, mid is very scarce—that is labor for charing. Thousands of women, it is said, no longer go out or lake in washing - —the husbands and sons are going homo with full pay envelope?. A place in Portland, Oregon,, that specialised in 5-cent beds has gone out. of business. And the theatres and movies are having the time of their lives—the amusement tax has produced £15,000,000 in ten months, an increase of 50 per coat.—N.Z. Alliance Publicity (1).