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Extract from Nansard Report of 13/10/38
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COST OF LIVING.-The rise in the cost of living, in respect of rents, food and, occasionally, firewood is somewhat disturbing. The measures taken to counteract the tendency of the first of these have met with some success, though they have not, of course, solved the whole problem. A very considerable portion of the population is unable to find any accommodation whatever and, as I have just stated, the public purse is being put to heavy expenditure in order to house such persons during the winter. Food prices, it is reckoned, have risen to the extent that to subsist a labouring class family of four costs about 8% more to-day than was the case a year ago. The position is kept under close review in the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs.
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