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QUESTIONS.
ANSWERS.
6. What were the
wages of each of your Servants
Boys
Cook
Coolie
in the following years ?
187+
8
1879
8
6 per month
1884
1889
13
9
ク
H
Ducks,.............
7. How much had you to pay for the principal
articles of consumption in the following
Beef
Bread,
years ?
Butter,
1874
1879
Eggs.
1884
Fowls,
1889
Mutton,
Pork,
Sugar,
Tea,
Rice,
Coffee,
8. What other important items of expenditure
did you have in the following years?
1874-
1879-
1881
1889-
•1886. $1200 sending my
Wife & 2 children to England by Doctors orders
in addition to $300. upwards for Doctor, Kill
Medicine».
1874. 1879. 1884. 1889.
(About the same as the price list furnished by the Inspector of Markets
must
quod vide. These prices have not changed much during the tast 6 years, but it be understood that fresh vegetables cannot be obtained for,
more
than 3 monster in the
Year & tinned
provisions
are
an
absolute necessity. I import my
Ainned
(provisions tother household
goods al an
advantage
For
in cost
every
$100
from Englund. Premisted to England for goods in 1883 Inow (1889) have to remit $122 for exacth, the dame value of goods, Drugs medicines are expensive. B) is only considered equal to /_ in these & many othe
cases,
Arne Shepherds ZalJune 1887.