WELL ABOVE PRE-WAR
LIVING COSTS COMPARED IN ENGLAND WORKERS ON LOW LEVEL LONDON, Thursday. A statement issued by the Minister of Labour shows that although the cost of food has reached the lowest average since the Great. War the general average cost today is still 50 per cent, above that of July, 1914. The cost of clothing ranges to 115 per cent, higher than at the date named, and the increase in the cost of maintaining unchanged the pre-war standard of living of the workers and their families is 61 per cent. This return ignores the enormous increases in rent, taxes and the cost of tobacco, beer and amusements.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 927, 21 March 1930, Page 11
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109WELL ABOVE PRE-WAR Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 927, 21 March 1930, Page 11
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