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COST OF LIVING.

OFFICIAL FIGURES SHOW DECREASE. FOOD PRICES COMING DOWN. “The index number for the three food groups as at November 15 last (Dominion weighted average) is 1625, a decrease of. 49 points as compared with the previous month’s figure (1674), and an increase of 51.87 per cent, as compared with that for July, 1914,” states the latent issue of the Monthly Abstract of Statistics.

“A fall of 57 points in the groceries group is accounted for mainly by a considerable fall in sugar, golden syrup, and treacle in most towns. This fall has been counteracted to some extent by a rise in the price of potatoes, due to th'- fact that new potatoes are being sold in most places to a greater extent than old potatoes. “In the dairy products group a fall of 57 points is due to an all-round decrease in the prices of butter and cheese.

“A fall of 32 points in the meat group is due mainly to a decline in the prices of beef and mutton in several towns.”

The Statistician publishes a table in which he shows the relative increases in the retail prices of food since July, 1914, in some of the principal countries of the world. The country with the smallest percentage increase ’ is South Africa, where an increase of only 34 per cent, was registered in August of this year. The United States is next with a 50 per cent, increase in September last; and New Zealand is third lowest with a percentage increase in November last of 52 per cent. Tire rise of prices in the United Kingdom is shown as 100 per cent, up to November. Finland has seen it shoot up to 1178 per cent. The figures for Russia are not available.

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Taranaki Daily News, 3 January 1922, Page 7

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COST OF LIVING. Taranaki Daily News, 3 January 1922, Page 7

COST OF LIVING. Taranaki Daily News, 3 January 1922, Page 7

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