CO129-438 - Public Offices - 1916 — Page 545

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£20

Australia, and

from the

now greatly enhanced

there are

ما

price

of not cut off altogether. This Company also unforted much the feeding stuff for their cattle,

production

So that the cost of milk, and

its retail price,

higher.

A

صحية

wow puncte

Coal which comes from Japan,

cost about $12 a ton before the

war; in march 1966

was $28

L

the frice

Rom the not hear

What it is now.

Lee - which is not

luxury-

has who four up 50 %% in cost.

been

Cube subscriptions have increased owing to mcriund

cost of running and smaller membership.

#

в

definite.

"I berstate to give faguère, but [2 Thanik] it would be

dafle to

Say

that

the average

Cost of living for Europeans hus

fove wp # at hast 157% deretty

moning to the war.

539

As regards increases in salaries,

recent years

there have been in

The

the grant of duty pay, and Sanction of the arrangement by

which offreins on starting salarin

$20707

are paid 20% of their salaries

in dollars at the current rate

4. This The proportions

Exchange,

ratel

and 70% at an Exchange

rate of 1/9 if the dollar rises above

that fagione.

has been for some

Exchain is

Tersis

A

nughbourhood of 2/2.

now

A and

The local furchasing power

the dollar incrinces very little, of

at all, with

a

in

des sterling.

value, so that, in the abwec

?

Some dother compensation Scheme,

a high dollar

at freant

Means

a reduction

1.

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