COST OF LIVING
AN AUSTRALIAN RETURN
NO INCREASE IN 1913. By Telegraph—Press' Association —CopyrlgUl SYDNEY, February 9. The Federal Statistician reports that the cost of living did not increase during 1913. There was a general upward tendency during 1912, but during last year this ceased. The prices of groceries were found to bo nearly 3 per cent, lower, but rents had advanced another 5 per cent., the average cost of living, therefore, being about the same for two years.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8652, 10 February 1914, Page 5
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