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Title: Missionary Visitor, The (1905)
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Brethren's General Missionary and Tract Committee
Subjects: Church of the Brethren Priodicals Church of the Brethren- Missions
Publisher: Elgin, Ill.: Brethren Publishing House
Contributing Library: Bridgewater College, Alexander Mack Memorial Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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it appeared to us, is submittedfor your careful consideration. Cost of Living.—Taking India as abasis of comparison, it will take twiceas much to support a mission in SouthAfrica as in that country. It would beunsafe, to open a mission here withoutcounting the cost of maintaining acouple, rent free, at $1,000 per year, withan additional sum of $100 per year foreach child in the family. A slight varia-tion would occur as to locality and thehabits of the missionaries. The Swissmission, one among the most economic-al in Africa, pays its workers on theforegoing basis, while the Church ofEngland pays its ministers $2,000 peryear each. Cost of Food and Clothing.—Beef, 20to 30 cents per pound; ham or bacon, 30cents; mutton, 25 cents; eggs, $1.00 to$1.50 per dozen; chickens, $1.00 to $1.50each; potatoes, $1.50 to $2.00 per bushel;wheat flour, $4.75 per hundredweight;corn meal $4.00 per hundredweight; su-gar, 8 cents per pound; rice, 6 cents per 516 THE MISSIONARY VISITOR (September, 1905
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TROPICAL SCENERY, AFRICA. pound; milk, 12 to 15 cents per quart;kerosene oil, 40 cents per gallon; calico,14 cents per yard. Making suit ofclothes, $15.00, you furnish all material.Good suit of clothing, $25 to $40, each.Rent for small cottage with four rooms$25.00 per month, with other expensesin proportion. These prices prevailedin the Rand District at the time of ourvisit and will be found to vary slightly in different localities. The River Brethrenelder at Buluwayo says it requires fourdollars to go as far in his locality asone goes in the United States, in pro-curing the necessaries of life. Hotels and Boarding.—Hotel chargesrange from $2.00 to $10.00 per day.Boarding at Durban, Johannesburg, Pre-toria and the Rand $7 to $20 per week,meals at railway stations 75 cents to $1.00 September, 1905) THE MISSIONARY VISITOR 517 each and about the same on dining cars.Cup of coffee or tea, 12 cents, withi^read and butter, 25 cents, two slicesof cold meat, bread and butter, tea orcoffee,

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