THE COST OF LIVING.
GOVERNMENT STATISTICIAN'S FIGURES. The Government statistician reports Hint the. cost of living index number for Hie three food groups (meat, groceries, and dairy , produce) for the month of February (Dominion weighted average) is 1708, an increase of 20 points ns compared with the December number, and an increase of 59.03 per cent, on rjio number for July, 1014. The data from' which the rent index number is calculated are collected only half-yearly, and if the last ascertained rent index number (August, 1919) is combined in its proper, proportion with the index number for the three food groups, it is found that the war increase in food and rents since July, 1914, is 42.40 per cent. , The statistician shows in his monthly "Abstract of Statistics" that the present purchasing' power of the sovereign', on the baßis of pre-war val» ties, is less than 13s,
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Taranaki Daily News, 5 April 1920, Page 6
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147THE COST OF LIVING. Taranaki Daily News, 5 April 1920, Page 6
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