COST OF LIVING
DROP IN ENGLAND CONTINUANCE OF DECLINE PREDICTED By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright. London, February 20. Official figures dealing with tho cost of living show a drop of fourteen points since January. The cost, is still 151 per cent, above the pre-war rate, but twentyfive points below the maximum height, reached in November, 1920. Experts predict the decline will continue. It is already effecting automatic reductions in wages, ns many trades are working under agreements by which wages rose proportionately with the cost of living. — Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 127, 22 February 1921, Page 5
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88COST OF LIVING Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 127, 22 February 1921, Page 5
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