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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8367, 1 March 1913, Page 10

To show tho increase in the cost of provisions in Berlin in 1911 and 1913, the ‘‘Berliner Tageblatt” gives ah actual middlo-claso housewife’s expenditure on food for a family of four, excluding alcohol. in 1911. This expenditure was .£BB Ife. In 1912, after making allowance for the shorter summer holiday, tho expenditure was .£llO 9s. The greatest part of the increase was duo to tho price of meat.

The Rev. C. Silvester Horne, M.P., speaking at Whitefleld's Tabernacle recently, said unices ho was very much mistaken the signs of the times were that 1913 would become easily more famous in England’s history than 1912. Ho did not refer to the interesting fact that every child bom after Now Tear would not bring debt to the family, or to the fact that an elaborate measure would be brought into operation which had for its object the health and well-being of the poor. Those things were important in themselves, but they meant mord than that. They were signs of a new time. They meant the regeneration of the State, the rebirth of the social conscience, the regeneration of tho social life of the country. The British Medical Association had singularly failed to discern the signs of the times. The association had not yet realised the new age. The doctors must become the servants of the commonwealth, like everyone else, and they must accept the situation when the voices of the people became more powerful than their own.