High Cost Of Living
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From Our Own Correspondent HONIARA, March 3.
HIGH cost of living in the Pacific, de scribed in January PIM, is nowhere more marked than in the BSIP. In spite of the present copra-prosperity and increasing production, both private in dividuals and Government officials, par ticularly those with families, are finding it difficult to maintain a reasonable standard of living and make both ends meet.
Prices of essentials are similar to those in Rabaul. The Protectorate Govern ment is very much disturbed by the present high costs and their continuing upward trend, and is trying, in consul tation with the WPHC, to find some way in which the burden of living costs may be reduced.