COST OF LIVING
THE FEBRUARY CALCULATION. SMALL FALL RECORDED. The monthly “Abstract of Statistics’* for February has just been issued. The Government Statistician, in a note dealing with food prices, lias' the following to say:— The indfcx number for the three food groups as at January 15th (Dominion weighted average) is 1573 a decrease of 32 pom th as compared with the preceding month’s figure (1605), and an increase of 47,01 per cent, as coll] pa red -vitli that for July, 1914.
In the groceries group a rise of 87 points has been recorded—mainly due to all-round rises in the prices of tinned traits and tobacco. The index number for the dairy products group has fallen 181 points, owing to considerable decreases all round in the prices of bacon and butter. Tho fall in butter is as much as 5d per lb in the case of some towns. <
In the meat group prices have remained practically stationary in most towns, the fall, of 16 points being due to a decrease in the prices of beef and mutton in some towns.
Country. Comparative Increase between July, 1914, and per cent. South Africa 33 Australia 42 New Zealand ..... Jan., 1922 . 47 ■United States Canada Holland 59 India 80 United Kinedom ... Jan.. 1922 . 85 Sweden ..., ... Ill Denmark ... 136 Norway ... 181 JTranoe r. ... 226 Belgium It&Iy Finland i ... 859 Germany Nov., 1921 ... 1814
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11163, 20 March 1922, Page 9
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229COST OF LIVING New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11163, 20 March 1922, Page 9
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