COST OF LIVING

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXVIII, 21 June 1912, Page 5

COST OF LIVING

, a AUCKLAND EVIDENCE

BY TELEGBAPH—PBESB ARSOCTATIOm

AUCKLAND, June 20. The Cost of Living Commission opened to-day.

Arthur Withers, general secretary of the Land Valuers' League, said that in the dominion the landlords' tribute in V^V"^ 1 iaxes stalled «o less than £22,000,000, which had to be carried by useful people and handed over to the landlords, to local bodies, and to the State before the heads of families began to receive anything to buy food and clothing lor themselves. Joseph Flanigan, a farmer, expressed the opinion that the increased value of land was responsible for the rise in the cost of farm products. F. Maekill, a fanner, stated that the price ol dairy produce had increased greatly in recent years. Albert Sanford, director of a local fish firm, said that the wholesale price of fish had risen. He denied that a rinooi retailers existed in Auckland °