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COST OF LIVING

MINISTER’S CLAIM.

(By Telegraph —Per Press Association)

WELLINGTON, May 29

I-lon. Mr de la Perrelle, commenting to-day on the trend of prices, said that there was no doubt that business people, in line with the curtailment of salaries and wages, were, as far as possible, cutting down the cost of household commodities. The Minister referred to a list prepared by the Government Statistician demonstrating a fall in the index figures for food, fuel and light, clothing boots, shoes, etc. He said that between the first quarter of 1929 and the corresponding:;, period for 1931, the retail price ' number, (including rentj, fell by six and two-thirds per cent.

The Minister said that calculations on the basis of the average consumption per family indicated that the decrease for the weekly household expenditure, on butter, beef, mutton, bacon, sugar, milk and bread alone totalled over five shillings, without taking into account smaller items in this class. He stated that clothing drapery, and footwear items accounted for approximately 12£- per cent, of the of the average household. ,Jt was apparent that considerable Savings in the expenditure oil these items could be made, and, under the abnormal selling: conditions prevalent jit the prgSent time* in the clothing' tra'de it" Was possible for a careful buyer to effect savings up to thirty per cent. Special lines of goods were, he explained, being sold at sacrifice prices in order to attract custom.

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Hokitika Guardian, 30 May 1931, Page 2

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COST OF LIVING Hokitika Guardian, 30 May 1931, Page 2

COST OF LIVING Hokitika Guardian, 30 May 1931, Page 2

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