ECONOMIC STATISTICS.
CURRENCY ANb FOOD PRICES. By Telejrrnph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, Nov. 25. A White Paper estimates the world's wheat yield for 1919 at 99.3 per cent, of the five years' average pre-war yield. Sugar is 96.3 per cent, and wool 01.8 per cent, compared with 1913. The coal output for America, Britain, France, Belgium, and Netherlands, and Germany for the first half of the year 1910 was SO.G per cent- of the 1913 yield. A comparison of the expansion of currency with ■ the rise of wholesale food prices, taking 100 in 1913 as the basis, shows the following increases:—Food Currency, prices. Sweden 274 2.1!) Britain .......■ 244 257 France 3(>.j 330 Ttalv 440 329 America 173 230 The public debt per head since the war has increased as follows: £. Britain 157 Germany 12S France 114 Italy 73 Austria R!) Belgium 74 America 55 The Japanese debt has increased onlv 3s ier head,
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Taranaki Daily News, 1 December 1919, Page 5
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151ECONOMIC STATISTICS. Taranaki Daily News, 1 December 1919, Page 5
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