COST OF LIVING
50 PER CENT. ABOVE PRE-WAR
_ The Government Statistician reports" a arop of five points in the three "food groups for the past month. Prices however are still 49.91 per cent, above-those m July; 1914—say, 50 per cent. T'When the Government Statistician . talks' In points he means that, taking the average annual aggregate of expenditure on groceries, dairy produce, and meat: in the four centres of the Dominion for.the period 1909-13 at 1000, the food'that would be purchasable for one thousand pennies then costs 1604 pennies now *ood prices vary. F or instance, the use on the 1914 prices in Auckland is 19.44 per cent; Wellington, 51.25 per cent. ; Chr.stchurch, 49.19.-per cent, : and S'Tf'Na^V^ °ellt- Tho sovereign" of July, 1914, however, will Uxlaf-Dur chase but 11, ajd if expended on Iroc«nes; 13s if oti milk, butter, bhele aiid eggs and 16s 2^,1 if 011 lle ™J t 'lluvT, i H I;' UCS & 8(1 lnOTe to-day £1 Wl9 4 lat COUU bK boU^^
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 26, 30 July 1924, Page 7
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164COST OF LIVING Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 26, 30 July 1924, Page 7
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