COST OF LIVING
NO CHANGE IN BRITAIN. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, June 18. The official cost-of-living figure on May 31 was 100 points above the level of July. 1914, showing no change as 'compared with May 1. For food alone the index figure was 70 points above the level of July, 1914. compared with 71 points on May 1, the decline being mainly caused by decreases in the prices of fish. Among items other than food, there was a slight increase in the prices of clothing and clothing materials, partly because of the effects of the purchase tax. Since this tax came into operation on October 21 the resulting increases in prices have raised the cost of living index figure by approximately five points.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 June 1941, Page 7
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