23 AUGUST 1913, Page 19

THE COST OF LIVING.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—Have you not given incorrect figures in your article

• "The Cost of Living ? Take Macclesfield, for instance • On referring to page 196 of the Board of Trade Report

you will find that 38 is the Tent compared with London, and that the cost of living is eight shillings. The same remark applies to all the towns you have quoted. Crewe, e.g., is given as 49; it should be 85.—I am, Sir, Srde., [We took these particular figures from a summary in the Yell Mall Gazette, in which the cost of living, based on rates and selected articles of food, and coal, was shown as between London and the other towns, fixing the figure at 100 for London.—En. Spectator.]