A comparison of the purchasing power of the New Zealand pound and the English pound was made in land by Canon E. A. Gowring, Canon of Bristol, who is visiting New Zealand after an absence of 45 years. He instanced rents. In England, he said, a working man paid 8s a week for a comfortable house, which included a bathroom among its amenities, and in New Zealand from 24s to 26s was asked. In England, too, an agricultural labourer could get a house for 3s a week. "Nor was the standard of living so different, because in England it was now much higher than it had been some years ago.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19622, 4 May 1938, Page 5
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110Page 5 Advertisements Column 7 Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19622, 4 May 1938, Page 5
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