COST CF LIVING.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 350, 18 March 1922, Page 6

COST CF LIVING.

i FURTHER DECLINE RECORDED. : Hi,, cost of living, as recorded in the figures prepared by the Govern ,ieiun, showed another fall m January, and 'it slaujls now a, 4., per eeul. in exu 1 .he cost in July, 1914. The peak ot high P,.j (rs W ;i S reached in December. 1920. when ihe cost Wits' over 73 per coin, in excess of .‘no July, 1914, level. Discussing the .January figure*, the Goveruniein SiaiLUeiaii ,-la.es ilia, in 1 the ' groceries group, a rise of 37 points has been 1 recorded, one mainly to increases in the prices of tinned frmis, and tobacco. People ' who preferred fresh fruit* did not have to pay (l.e extra cost of the tinned stuff. The 1 index number for the dairy products group 1 fell 181 points owing to considerable tie- ‘ creases all round in the prices of butter 'and. bite,’lit. Prices in the, in eat group remained practically stationary in most towns, Dili tin l Dominion average shows a small reduction in meat prices owing to reduction- in certain towns. The la lest available figures for the. prillcina! countries publishing statistics of remil pains oi food show that Xew Zealand ’ i- relatively in a good position, 'flu* percentage increases over the prices of July, ’ ] 914. are given as follows: —South Africa 53, Australia 42, Xew Zealand 47, United Slate- 50. Canada 55, Holland 58, United I Kiurdoin 85, Sweden 111, Denmark 136. 1 Norway 181. France (Paris) 226, Belgium j 3>i. Italy (Rome) many 1314.