THE COST OF LOTTO.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18250, 17 November 1922, Page 9

THE COST OF LOTTO.

FORTUNATE NEW ZEALAND.

COMPARISON WITH ENGLAND.

"The first thing one finds on coming back to New Znaland." stated Mr. J. M. Hott, of Wellington, in the course of an interview, "is the sense of well-being and prosperity here as compared with the poverty and diutress so noticeable in the older countries., America and England. Both those countries have suffered very severely from depression and unemployment, but in both it is now, happily, diminishing.

"Another thing that impresses one very much on getting hack is the difference in >the cost oil living. We had a house in London for some four months, and consequently are probably able to form a better idea of the relative costs of living here and at Homo than those who stayed in hotels. For instance, we notice that milk is s£d a quart here, as against 8d when we left London in the autumn. Lamb chops were Is each in London; beefsteak about Is lOd a lb.; and a small leg of lamb would cost about 10s as against 3s 6d here. A sirloin of beef in London cost us about 9s; bacon was 2s 9d o lb., as against Is 4d here; and eggs about 2s 6d a dozen; ajad fish is cheaper. We came to the conclusion that, as far as foodstuffs are concerned, it costs about twice as much to live in London; though, of course, clothing is cheaper there. But the main cost of living is in the food items, and in them the difference between London and Nev Zealand is most marked."