WAR PRICES.
COST OF LIVING INCREASED
WELLINGTON, November 10
The percentage increases inj the price of essential foodstuffs have been still further worked out by the Government Statistician and the totals brought up to September last. In the principal centres the percentage of increases in the prices of groceries, dairy produce, and meat since the outbreak of war have been 30.84 in Wellington, 29.27 in 'Christchurch, 28.69 in Dunedin, and 24.86 in Auckland. Palmerston North manages to show the biggest percentage for the whole Dominion, owing to a 50 per cent, rise in meat prices, and 40 per cent, advance In dairy prices. Blenheim, with a total increase of 19.40 per cent, for the three groups, and Nelson with 19.97 per cent., are at the other end of the list. These figures are deceptive in some respects. It is obvious, for example, that Palmerston North occupies its apparently unfavourable position, not because it is the most expensive town in New Zealand in which to live, but because it held a particularly good position before the war. It has suffered from a level. ling up of prices.
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Northern Advocate, 12 November 1917, Page 1
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