LOWER PRICES.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2272, 5 October 1914, Page 7

LOWER PRICES.

NO DEMAND FOR LUXURIES. So unanimous Las been tho response to the proposal of more Spartan fare that luxuries and expensive foods generally have been finding few buyers, says the London "Daily News and Leader" of August 11. It seemed rather strange to be told at Billingsgate Market that the lordly salmon was going cheap at only Is. to Is. 2d. per lb., whereas the plebeian kipper had sprang up in price more than any other kind of fish, and could not bo had at less than from 35., to ss. per box. The supply generally, however, was almost normal. Another anomaly was to be noted in the fact' that whilst English beef is now selling at from Is. 2d. to Is. 3d. per lb., the most expensive poultry which' usually figures on 'the menu of the well-to-do has dropped considerably in price, though not in supplies: - Plump English fowls and Aylesbury ducklings were going cheap yesterday in Leadenhall Market, but so few were the buyers that quantities were replaced in the cold chamber. ■ The more expensive fruits, are not fetching the prices they might command at normal times, and in the case of hot-house grapes. English-grown melons, peaches, and William pears, the weekend saw disposal of large quantities to working-class buyers at prioes that must have represented an infinitesimal profit, if any. Fine plums and apples were selling yesterday at a penny the pound. The Bishop of London, speaking at a service of intercession at Sii?'*l>aul's, Knightsbridge, yesterday, said all'must make sacrifices, and he asked that nobody should have more than two courses at any meal, however rich they might have been- before the war.