THE COST OF LIVING.
LATEST OFFICIAL FIGURES. The Government Statistician’s February report says: The index number for the three food groups for the month of January (Dominion weighted average) is 1906, a decrease of 9 points as compared with the preceding month’s figure (1915), and an increase of 78.13 per cent as compared with that for July, 1914. The. decrease is not so marked ae had lieen anticipated. In the dairy-produce group the fall of 39 points is substantially the result of the decreased prices ruling for bacon and ham; and iff the case of the meat group the fall is exclusively due to the price of pork. During the December quarter of the amount required on the average to purchase, that am'ount of food which would have coet 20s on the average for the four chief centres during the years 1909-13 was 32s Bid.
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Taranaki Daily News, 11 March 1921, Page 4
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145THE COST OF LIVING. Taranaki Daily News, 11 March 1921, Page 4
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