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enquiries into the matter bath.

ley

questioning persons of long residence in the colony and by inspecting the

various

records

of this office.

The result of my enquiries has

been to discover that at the present

time.

1 cheaper

1. Provisions

are

fairly

13

2. Lamp Lights (oil)

3. Servants (native). About the

same as in 1865.

do

Remuneration

4. Travelling within the Colony, about

the same now as in 1865.

2.

Lodging

6. Lodging

7. Articles of British |

European Produce}

then in the

fairly

12 cheaper

33 dearer

1/2 dearer

year

1863?

C

With regard to Light, Gas has been introduced into the Colony since 1865,

and

this

has made

a

per cent

per year

the Gas Company have

made a reduction of about twelve

per cent on their former prices.

an

Articles of British and European produce can be readily obtained from England either through a

Cooperative Society or through Army

and other

Agents,

and

Provision Dealers. If

an

Officer

is able to draw his pay in England

he

can supply himself

in Sterling with British and

European Produce

much more economically by paying for it at home and ordering it to be

sent out to him than by buying in the Colony