COST OF LIVING COMMISSION.

West Coast Times, 15 June 1912, Page 3

COST OF LIVING COMMISSION.

UNIMPORTANT'. EVIDENCE. [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIGHT.', CHRISTCHURCH, June 14. Tho Cost of Living Commission will sit here on Monday, and perhaps Tuesday. J. S. Wilson, secretary of the Bakers’ Union, said that with wages at £3 the cost of labour was about jfd in producing a loaf; the delivery cost Id. Wages in the trade had increased 5s in fourteen years. R. E. Cowpcr, of the General Labourers’ Union, said that the* average wages of 50 men for four months was 32s 6d a week. The rate of pay was Is 6d a day higher than in 1902. He ni,ged the erection of more workers’ dwellings. C. Bowyer, ox-grocer, gave evidence regarding tho operation of the Merchants Association’s interference with tin retail business, and said he had been threatened with boycott unless ho joined the Retailers’ Association.'