Fijijs Cost Of Living

At New Record

Prom Our Own Correspondent SUVA, April 9.

THE Labour Department’s scale of cost of-living of Indian workmen which is published quarterly, is not really needed to rub in the fact that Fiji’s cost of living is still soaring to previously unknown heights.

However, it is useful to be told, offi cially, that on April 1, the index number was 210 for Suva and 237 for Viti Levu, excluding Suva. In each case the figure is a record.

It means that the cost-of-living of In dian workmen in Suva is now 110 per cent, above 1939, and 137 per cent, above 1939 in the areas outside Suva.