Bread Up, But Same Cost
p. 98 · Read in the full issue
Of Living!
WHAT seems to be a rather un convincing attempt to tell the Fiji public that the cost of liv ing has in no way increased, though the price of bread has gone up, appears in an official Fiji Gov ernment statement issued recently.
The statement does not give the actual figure of the price increase, but it says: “A small increase in the price of bread has been made neces sary by the rise in the cost of flour since the Government subsidy was removed, and from October 1 the bakers will charge 1/- per loaf. If the weight of the loaf had been increased to 2 lbs (as had been sug gested in some quarters), the price would have been Id, Most house holders buy a fairly constant num ber of loaves each week, and a rise of 2|d in the cost of a loaf would have been felt in the general cost of Jiving.”
So the weight of a loaf remains the same, the price has increased, the cost of living is unchanged and apparently Fiji eats bread by the loaf, not by the slice, and can de tect no difference in the digestive tract if the loaves happen to be small ones—or big ones—which they’re not going to be, anyway!
Pass the cake, brother.-
Jps.
Over 200 Eastern Samoan men serving in Hawaii with the US Navy, and their families recently attended a celebration marking the first anniversary of the opening of their Congregational Church at Pearl Harbour. The church was opened shortly after the Samoans arrived there last year.
fl Mr. W. E. Donovan, Accountant- General, Fiji, and Mr. R. W. Park inson, recently Fiji Statistician, both returned from overseas leave recently. Mr. Parkinson now takes over the duties of Import and Price Control from Mr. W. E. Monk, who returned to New Zealand during October.