COST OF LIVING.
A SUGGESTED CAUSE,
'Times* —'Sydney Sun' Special Cables. (Received Last Night, 6.5 o'clock.) CAPETOWN, February 21.
A Bill has been introduced in thp State Legislature to prevent married women from charging for whisky on grocers' accounts as butter and eggs. It is argued for th Bill that such is the foundation of the high cost of living, through women habitually deceiving their husbands in the accounts, making them pay for whisky billed as edibles.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 23 February 1914, Page 5
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77COST OF LIVING. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 23 February 1914, Page 5
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