THE COST OF LIVING.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13455, 28 June 1912, Page 6

THE COST OF LIVING.

SITTING IN AUCKLAND

f-United Prkss Association.]

Auckland, June 27. The Auckland -sitting -of-the, Cost of -Living' Commission will end on Saturday, and on Sunday the •Commission will leave for Wellington. At to-day's sitting Mr Thomas-Bell, of :ih6 Union soai> and -candid factory, said tb""~ ",as discrimination in someways ri i;:^ard to buyers. He admitted thcro wan an agreement that certain produce- nf the factory shoiild not- bo wild below certain prices. This was only fair, however, for the retail man. unless hf <rot a reasonable profit, would not soil the factory's lines.