VATICAN CITY
Cost of Living It costs less than half as much to live iu the Vatican City as in Rome, which entirely surrounds it. No customs duties or taxes add to the prices of things, and the foo citizens of the Papal State buy supplies at costs. Contraband running nowhere offers mote tempting profits, but there is no dodging the Italian Customs, for all citizens of the Vatican City are known, and the gates are so guarded that if an outsider should manage to buy there he would have no chance of taking out his purchase. The ex' ceptio.i to this rule is found in the large households of the cardinals who live in Rome As citizens ot the Papal State they have the right to buy there and have their purchases delivered to their homes. Comparison ot prices in the Vatican City and Rome show that the Vatican City citizen gets his go ds ior less than hall the prices ch rged on the other side ot St. Peter’s Square. Cigars, tobacco, and cigarettes sell for about two filths of Italian prices.
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Inangahua Times, 25 August 1931, Page 4
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184VATICAN CITY Inangahua Times, 25 August 1931, Page 4
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