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Title: The conditions of success in emigration, with the approximate cost of living in relation to wages in the British colonies and India: a paper read at the Conference at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, on the 14th of July, 1886

Author: Leone Levi

In: The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 56

Publication details: Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington

Part of: The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout

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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 56

Approximate Average Cost of Living in the British Colonies on the basis of the ordinary average consumption of a working man's family of five persons in England, calculated at local prices

England. (a) North American Colonies. (b) West Indian Colonies. (c) Australian Colonies. (d) Asiatic Colonies. Prices. Cost. (e) African Colonies. Prices Cost. Prices Cost. Prices Cost. Prices Cost. Prices. Cost. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s d. s. d. s. d. lbs. Bread . 28 - 6 14 0 - 3, 7 0 - 3½ 8 2 - 1¾ 4 1 - 2¾ 6 5 - 5½ 12 10 Meat . 4 - 8 2 8 - 2 6 - 5? 2 10—4½ 1 6 - 5 1 8 - 7¼ 2 8 Butter . 1 1 6 1 6 1 2 1 2 1 7 1 7 1 5 1 5 1 11 1 11 2 4 2 4 Cheese. 0½ - 0 - 4½ - 8 - 4 1 4 - 8 - 11 - 5½ 1 8 - 10 1 8 - 10½ Sugar . 3 - 4 1 0 - 3? - 11 - 5¼ 1 4 - 4¼ 1 1 - 3¼ 10 10 - 5 1/16 1 5 Tea, . 0½ 3 0 1 6 2 6 1 3 3 10 1 8 2 6 1 3 1 7 - 9 3 5 1 11 21 0½ 13 2 16 3 9 9½ 12 5 22 0½ 52 weeks' cost £54 £34 £43 £25 £32 £57 50 per cent, for other things} £27 £16 £21 £13 3 £16 £27 Total . . . £81 £50 £64 £38 £48 £84 4 Earnings for 50 weeks . at 32s. £80 54s. £135 24s. £61 54s. £136 10s. £2S 60s. £150 Cost of living £81 £50 £64 £38 £48 £84 Surplus. . £85 +£98 +£66 Deficiency. £1 £3 £23 (a) North American Colonies..Canada, Montreal. "Manitoba. (b) West Indian Colonies Jamaica, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Barbados, Grenada, Tobago, Trinidad, British Guiana. (c) Australian Colonies South Australia, New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Western Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Fiji. (d) Asiatic Colonies Singapore, Hong Kong. (e) African Colonies Cape of Good Hope, Natal, Lagos.

Approximate Average Cost of Living in the British Colonies on the basis of the ordinary average consumption of a working man's family of five persons in England, calculated at local prices.