LIVING COSTS
Sir, —Mrs. Macmillan in reply to my previous letter states that I have only partly stated the facts, and gives as an example wages being so very much lower in England. I found 20s in England went quite as far as MOs docs in New Zealand. Everything is so much dearer; for instance, 1 was paying 21s a ton in England for coal, and one ton used to last quite as long as two tons of New Zealand and it was brought a very much greater distance by train, hut the railway is not State owned. This is the great mistake the Government is making in New Zealand, controlling things that ought to be owned by private enterprise. 18 Prospect Terrace, J. Edwakds. Mount Eden, 5.2.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23085, 9 July 1938, Page 19
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