Life in Australia
COST OF LIVING HIGH DIFFICULTIES OF TRAVEL Writing to a member of the Hutt News staff a resident of Melbourne says: “We had a great referendum victory yesterday on the question of whether the Federal Government should retain controls, the proposal being defeated by a great majority. I am glad the Chifley Government got a smashing defeat. “The cost of living over here is terrible. The old £1 note does not go far these times. Wages are increased, but then up go the prices. I pity the people with rent to pay and children to feed and clothe. The weekly pay envelope must soon go. “The 40-liour week is a mistake, t think. The leisure is all right, but production suffers. In some factories the 4 0-hour week finishes at midday on Fridays. Housewives are finding the closing of the butchers’ shops on Saturday mornings a great hardship; they have to get their meat on Friday or go without. “I see by the papers that travel between Australia and New Zealand is very difficult. Australians going to New Zealand are warned that they will have to work there until they get on the long list of passengers waiting to go to Australia. What a list it must be!”
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Hutt News, Volume XXI, Issue 50, 9 June 1948, Page 9
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211Life in Australia Hutt News, Volume XXI, Issue 50, 9 June 1948, Page 9
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