EVER SOARING HIGHER
COST OF LIVING FIGURES. The cost of living, ever soaring higher, is shown bv the Acting-Government Statistician to be 26 points higher for January as computed with December. The index number for the. three food groups for January (Dominion" weighted average) is reported to be 1688, as compared with the December number 1662. It is found that the war increase in food and rents since July, 1914, is 41.25 per cent.
With reference to the exceptaonal increase in the index numbers of retail prices of groceries for January, 1920, especially in the case of the southern towns, this is to a very large extent duo to the high prices ruling for new potatoes in that months
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10537, 13 March 1920, Page 8
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119EVER SOARING HIGHER New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10537, 13 March 1920, Page 8
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