POSITION IN IRELAND
FEARS FOR THE FUTURE STANDARDS OF LIVING FALLING. LONDON, June 9. Though current events in the Free State are now running smoothly, still waters are deep and black, and it is feared that ugly rapids are ahead, says the Dublin correspondent of the Manchester Guardian. The cost of living threatens to rise all round, while the standards of living fall. The Minister of Agriculture rejoices because the country’s wheat acreage has increased from 21,000 to 60,000, but critics complain that wheat is going to cost; locally nearly double the worffi price.
Farmers are being precariously propped up by raising the price of. butter to Irish consumers to Is 4d a lb. Bankers, followers of Mr Cosgrave, and Mr de Valera’s Labour allies are alike growing restive about the future. The abolition of the oath has not removed the menace of the Irish Republican Army, which is preparing a great demonstration of strength at the Wolfe Tone commemoration at. Bodcnstown on June 16. Mr de Valera’s followers are organising a counter-demonstration on June 25.
The I.R.A. is credited with enrolling upwards of 100,000 men, with considerable stores and arms.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21982, 17 June 1933, Page 11
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191POSITION IN IRELAND Otago Daily Times, Issue 21982, 17 June 1933, Page 11
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