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NZ Truth, Issue 750, 1 November 1919, Page 8

air. Robert Smillie has told the British Coal Commission that at one time he had to keep a family of seven on 18a 6d a -week. A London "Evening News" man asked him how he managed it. "It was a g-ood many years ago," said "Bob." "The cost of living was very low compared to what it is now. We paid £1 a quarter rent for a very small place at Larkhall, and lived chiefly on potatoes and oatmeal, which were very cheap, with bread and eggs, which were also cheap. It was very rarely that we got any moat. This went on for many months, and during the whole of the time my wife sat working at her sewing machine ,