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 . ristchurch, Dunedin, and for Average of Four Centres for each Year, 1891-1914.(Base : Average aggregate annual expenditure, four chief centres, 1909-13=1,000.) Year. Auckland. Wellington. Christchurch. Dunedin. Average of Four Centres ..1 730 893 * 844 * 751 890 * 844 * 1 816 909 * 847 * 1 843 904 * 833 * 1 822 907 * 833 * 1 841 897 *
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 . ristchurch, Dunedin, and for Average of Four Centres for each Year, 1891-1914.(Base : Average aggregate annual expenditure, four chief centres, 1909-13=1,000.) Year. Auckland. Wellington. Christchurch. Dunedin. Average of Four Centres ..1 730 893 * 844 * 751 890 * 844 * 1 816 909 * 847 * 1 843 904 * 833 * 1 822 907 * 833 * 1 841 897 * 840 * 849 894 * 854 ^ 901 948 * 880 * 870 918 878 835 875 864 945 911 860 895 889 979 933 881 920 911 1,007 948 901 942 904 944 900 939 908 940 887 939 i 973 979 923 984 1 978 1,005 933 975 984 919 991 : 98] 1,086 978 924 992 983 941 913 977 989 1,081 947 943 990 984 1,071 942 939 984 1,085 969 970 1 1,152 968 973 ^ 1,177 1, Groceries figures not available for Christchurch prior to 01 •oa W 10 li l^ 13 19U The influenci >f rent on the cost of living has evidently been in thedirection of increasing the expenditure greatly. A with thegraph drawn for rent in the four towns clearly establishes the connection,as, for instance, in Ohristchurch in 1906. House-rent forms a big andincreasing proportion of the total expenditure in an average family. It will be noticed that the relative positions of the towns have beenaltered by the inclusion of the rent-factor. Dunedin is still the leastex-pensive town; but Wellington has leaped to the position of the mostexijensive. It has been found, too, in dealing with the twenty-five townsfrom 1914 onward that rent is the determining factor in deciding therelative expense of living in any town. The general tendency
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