AMERICAN PRICES COMPARED
LOW IN COMPARISON WITH NEW ZEALAND ' The comparatively low prices ruling for many goods in the United States were spoken of at a luncheon of hte Hastings Rotary Club by Mr Piet van Asch, who recently returned from a round-the-world flight. Mr van Asch said that the exchange rate was 3£ dollars to the New Zealand pound. Prices for vacuum cleaners ranged from 54 to 80 dollars, and a six foot refrigerator could be bought for 130 dollars. Tomatoes were 17 cents a pound in summer and 25 cents in winter; sweet oranges were 15 cents a pound and grapefruit five to 35 cents.
Prices of butter and meat had soared-during the war, said Mr van Asch. Butter used to be 25 cents a pound, but now was 96 cents; meat had increased from 35 cents to 84 cents a pound. • Nylon stockings could be bought for one dollar 50 cents.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 13, 2 April 1947, Page 4
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154AMERICAN PRICES COMPARED Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 13, 2 April 1947, Page 4
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