THE COST OF LIVING
INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON. POLISH CITY THE CHEAPEST. (Pveam Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.) GENEVA, December 3. The average family’s daily basket of provisions, including meat, vegetables, bread, coffee, milk, and butter, was the basis of an inquiry by the Labour Office of the League into the cost of living in the chief cities. Lodz (Poland) was found to be the cheapest with 2s, and Philadelphia the dearest with 8s Id, Sydney being next with 8s Id. London (7s Id) is eighth on the list.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19965, 6 December 1926, Page 9
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