PUKCHASING POWEK OF THE PEOPLE 55 



severe famine without resorting to relief works, which 

 must mean that in good years large numbers of people 

 can nowadays put by savings sufficient to tide them 

 over bad years. 



N.B. — The outbreak of war interfered so much with trade move- 

 ments that no attempt has been made to interpret figures since 1914. 



If the average figures for these five articles of 

 consumption during the first five and last five years, 

 respectively, of this period be taken, it will be seen 

 that in a period of ten years the annual expenditure 

 on these articles increased by Es.228 lakhs. 



