HIGH COST OF LIVING
LONDON, August 13.
A Board of Trade report comparing the cost of living for the working classes In 1905 and 1912 indicates that there has been an average increase of 10 per cent, in rent, fuel, food, and clothing. Though the price of tea and sugar has fallen mutton has risen 6 per cent., beef 9 per cent., bread and flour 15 per cent., bacon 32 per cent., and potatoes 48 per cent. The Times, in the course of a leader, cays there is some consolation in the rapid rise of food since 1900 in other countries. In Austria the price has advanced 35 per cent., in Belgium 52 per cent., in Germany 30 per cent., and in Italy 28 per cent, while in France and Britain the increase has been only 15 per cent. The nearest to them are Australia and New Zealand with 16- per cent. Canada heads the list with 151 per cent., though the United States and Japan, if the figures were available, would probably' surpass that. The fiscal argument in favour of fr*e imports which might be drawn from the position is marred by the case of France, which has become more and more' eelf sufficing under a deliberate policy of protection.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3101, 20 August 1913, Page 24
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