INCREASED COST OF LIVING
ATTRIBUTED TO HIGHER WAGES. iPiiess Assooia tion Copyright. ) (Ifcec. 9.30 a.m.) ✓ SDNEY, This Day. Before the Wages Board Inquiry v/itnee&es crave evidence that since 1910 the rent of houses had advanced 20 per cent find groceries 15 per cent. There' was also a great increase in the cost 'of clothing-. All witnesses attributed the increase to the greater cost of labour, r.he result of the Wages Board awards.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 19 February 1913, Page 5
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72INCREASED COST OF LIVING Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 19 February 1913, Page 5
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