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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1747, 30 August 1905, Page 62

A good deal of stress is frequently laid on tbe fact that the cost of living has increased considerably during the past few years (says the Dunedin “Star”). A master grocer in a large way in the town told the Arbitration Court at Dunedin that so far as groceries were ooncemed they bad not increased in price during the past four years; in fact, in some cases the price of articles in their trade had decreased —'kerosene, for instanoe.