Prices in Hongkong
People in New Zealand who complain of high prices should consider "themselves fortunate not to he in Hongkong. Before the war a city where the cost of living Avas comparatively low Hongkong is now suffering from a severe shortage of consumer goods and prices have risen to dizzy heights. The representative of a New Zealand firm,, in
a letter received in Auckland, says that palm heach suits ? which lie fore the war cost £3 10s s now cost £2O. A winter, suit costs £100 ? a pipe £5 and a bottle of whisky £7.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 45, 19 February 1946, Page 7
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96Prices in Hongkong Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 45, 19 February 1946, Page 7
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