Cost of Living in Fiji

ACCORDING to the latest European cost-of-living index, issued in Fiji by Mr C. H. Came, living in the Colony now costs 74 per cent more than 1939. . T* l6 ba se year is taken to be 1939 and is f lVO^/r an * nc *f x 10®- The index number for March, 1949, was 174—two per cent, more than in December, 1948, but the same as the index for September, 1948.

Mr. Came seems to think that cost-of- Hvmg will rise even more, shortly.