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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8871, 4 November 1907, Page 4

The price of articles of general consumption is going up by leaps and bounds. Almost every day the wires tell us of some addition being made to the long list of commortfries which have been advanced in price. So many articles have been raised, and are being raised, in value that by and by the only exception to the "raising" craze will lie in the impossibility for people to] "raise the wind" to procure the necessaries of life. It seems that sooner or later most of us will have to emulate those men and women in the dominion who have recently been practising how to live for thirty or forty days upon air and water.