High Cost Of Living
p. 82 · Read in the full issue
In Tonga
But Copra is Up, Too
From Our Own Correspondent
Nukualofa, April 6.
THE cost of living in the Kingdom is still rising steadily, as prices of flour (now £5/1/6 a 150 lb. bag) and the following items, taken at random, show.
The figures in parenthesis were the prices ruling when war broke out. 1 lb. tin meat 2/5 (1/-); 2 lb. loaf of bread 1/4 (6d.); kerosene per bottle Bd. (6d.); butter ner lb. 3/8 (1/6, 14 oz. tin); fish 2/2 (9d.).
Corresponding with the rise m the cost of living is the rise in price of copra.
Two Tongan youths, Kiteau and ‘Unga. heirs to important titles, have gone to Wesley College, Auckland, under the scholarship plan for the sons of Tongan nobles.