LIVING COSTS LOWER FURTHER DECLINE IN FOOD GROUPS. A further decline is shown in the December statistics, just issued, in tlie price levels for the three main food groups—groceries# meat, and dairy products. Tlie index number for these groups as at December I’s, is 1479, a decrease of 13 points, compared with that for the previous month. The price levels are now within 38% points of the July, 1914', figure. A fall of 14 points in groceries’ is mainly due to an allround decline in the price of potatoes. The reduction in the price of butter is responsible chiefly for the fall of 45 points. This decline is off-set by a rise in the price of mutton, whica accounts for an increase of 15 points in that group. New Zealand shares with. Canada the third position, in the 'nearness of its prices to the pre-war level.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4529, 19 February 1923, Page 2
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146Page 2 Advertisements Column 6 Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4529, 19 February 1923, Page 2
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