Report on the cost of living in New Zealand, 1891-1914, being an inquiry into the course of retail prices during the period 1891-1914; with monthly tables showing increases during war period--July, 1914, to August, 1915 . 5 J Gore . 24 8 24 Oi 27 H 25 5i 14 0 21 OJ InvercargUl 23 10 24 lU 25 U . 24 8i 20 0 < 22 10^ Note.—Figures are comparable vertically but not horizontally. COST-OP-LIVING THERMOMETER, aU the foregoing tables giving information concerning prices intwenty-five towns the four chief centres are shown at the top of the list,the other towns following in geographical ord
Report on the cost of living in New Zealand, 1891-1914, being an inquiry into the course of retail prices during the period 1891-1914; with monthly tables showing increases during war period--July, 1914, to August, 1915 . 5 J Gore . 24 8 24 Oi 27 H 25 5i 14 0 21 OJ InvercargUl 23 10 24 lU 25 U . 24 8i 20 0 < 22 10^ Note.—Figures are comparable vertically but not horizontally. COST-OP-LIVING THERMOMETER, aU the foregoing tables giving information concerning prices intwenty-five towns the four chief centres are shown at the top of the list,the other towns following in geographical order. To see at a glance thepositions occupied by the various towTis in order of cost of living, adiagram (see following page) is now given in the form of what may becalled cost-of-Hving thermometers, whereon each town is shown oppositea point corresponding to its index number in the table referring to expendi-ture on all groups, for the last two quarters of 1914 and the first two quartersof 1915. The thermometers not only show the relative positions of the townsfrom the pomt of view of higher or lower cost of Uving, but also give agood indication of the increases or decreases in any town throughout the year. 82. 83 DOMINION INDEX NUMBERS, 1914-15. To obtain a general estimate of the course of prices for the whole Dominionit has been necessary to obtain a weighted average of the index numbers foreach town. It is obvious that it would not be strictly correct to obtain a simpleaverage of the prices in Alexandra, with a population of 809, and in Auckland,with a population of over 100,000. So each town has been weightedaccording to its population, and a composite index number has been ob-tained, which, though artificial, represents the average level of prices inthe Dominion. It will be seen that the twenty-five towns considered have a totalpopulation of approximately haK the population of New Zealand, so thatthey are representative of the Dominion. The four centres, which includea
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