HIGH COST OF LIVING.
EXPECTED RISE IN FOOD. (Australian and N.Z- Cable Association.) (Reuter's Telegram.) (Received May 19, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, May 18. The Labor Gazette states that retail .prices, including food, clothing, light, and rent, on May 1 were about 141 per cent, above the figures, ruling m July,' 1914. The Food Controller's statistics relating to food show an increase of 146 per cent. He says that the United Kingdom's food prices have risen less than France, Italy, an_ Sweden, and are not much m excess of the United States, and adds: The present level is undoubtedly a. matter for serious concern. The Pood Controller concludes: — "Prices m the coming summer will reach a very- high level owing to the cost of importable food, the partial re : moval of the bread subsidy, and the price of sugar and potatoes."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15220, 19 May 1920, Page 3
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140HIGH COST OF LIVING. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15220, 19 May 1920, Page 3
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