To the Editor of the "NonTH-CHINA Datty News."
Sin—Mr. Urquhart _spent_most of his time in the very south of the South Island which corresponds to the very north of Scotland or the Orkney Islands: the place I di scribed is in the very north of the North Island which is comparable to the South of France.
I submit a resident in the Orkneys is as competent to give &n opinion of the south of France, which he has never seen, as is Mr. Urquhart to give an opinion on Kerikeri which is a terra incognita to him.
In any case it is very difficult for Mr. Urquhart to prove his assertion the expensiveness of life in slond or for me to prove the posite. It all depends in the kind of life one lends. Here in Shanghai one man spends $1,000 a month to live whilst another spends $300. A men of the §300 a month standard] coming here and attempting to live at the $1,000 rate would find it very expensive hut his opinion would be wrong.
Speaking roughly it costs about] the same to live in England or New slond in the same style. At a country place like Kerikeri, in the extreme north, where extreme simplicity obtains, and where the climate is so very mild, a family ca live much more cheaply than in any of the towns, Commission, but General Ssu pointment as well ax that of the other commissioners was the recomniendatt shall try to deal with wextions in my lecture on the sub this week, I trust Mr.
Urquhart will do me the honour of being present, if it ix convenient to him to man for the posit und for no other reason, Since T have mo interest in the sub other try and help countrymen in China. who are loo)
1 for some plice under the Old id 250 packers of the Chang Sing Cigarette Company, 120 Point Roa:
The strikes in Or rected employees of a cigar faezory, a dyeing works and a number of silk fature Ik filature workers, who dem can live in peace coa living. At present there, are only a few of us there but there is room for several hundreds of families in this, to my mind, the: eve Zealand," and, tainted with it, waxes for the period of strike in March 1928, were hile for half a day 5 ority,, The strike the French Conceusién affected the
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