HIGH COST OF LIVING

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XVII, Issue 5883, 10 April 1920, Page 3

HIGH COST OF LIVING

THE EFFORTS TO 'REDUCE IT. PUBLIC CO-OPERATION. (By Telegranii.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day.

I 111 the course of «i lengthy statement justifying, the action of the Governjw?tit in the steps it had taken to d'uee 'the cost of living, Mr Massey stated yesterday that everyone, engaged in commerce kView the extreme difficulty of securing supplies. At no time in the Dominion's history was the demand for imported goods so great and tho shelves so ba.ro. The Government would do its duty in facing the position fearlessly, but it had to be careful and just. Ho would again stress that the Government had given every possible opporj tunity to the public of having full in- ! viestigajticms made into all cases ifci which 'they considered unreasonable profits 'were being ma'de, and the Government I looked to them to exercise, their powers ! in' this direction, as, wl'thout the asi sistance of the public, the full benefit of J the legislation recently passed could not I bo realised.