COST OF LIVING
LOWEST SINCE WAR
[United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.]
LONDON, March 19
A comparison published in the Ministry of Labour gazetted shows that food has now reached its lowest average cost since the war. The general average cost to-day is fifty per cent above that of July, 1914. Clothing ranges to 115 per cent above, while the increase in the cost of maintaining is unchanged. The pre-war standard of living of the working class families is sixtyone per cent, higher. This ignores the enormous increase in rent, and in the taxes on tobacco, beer and amusements.
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 March 1930, Page 2
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