COST OF LIVING
GOVERNMENT STATISTICIAN'S « . FIGURES. The Government Statistician reports that the cost of living index number for the three .food groups (meat, groceries,' and dairy produce) for the month cf February (Dominion weighted average) is 1708, an increase of 20 points as compared with the Decamber number, mi increase of 59.03 per cent, on the number for July, 11114. The data from which the rent index number is calculated are collected only half-yearly, and ii tlii- last ascertained renr index number (August, 1919) is combined Vin proper proportion with the index number for the three food groups, it . is found that the war increase in. food and rents since July, 1914, is 42.40 tier cent. . • The statistician shows in his monthly "Abstract of Statistics" that' the present purchasing power of the sovereign, on the basis of pre-war values, is less' than 135..
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 161, 3 April 1920, Page 6
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143COST OF LIVING Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 161, 3 April 1920, Page 6
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