SOARING PRICES
THE POSITION IN AMERICA,
'Trices here seem to be soaring far atorclhe-New Zealand levels/ ".tas i Not Zwlander from the TJiutecS ; W«. "Comparisons are apt to be, mis ca ling, owing to the difference in the stand, id of values and the. wages ff* ** ft tween America, and New fcahMb" some of the prices quoted here m •!■ unary Vay ho of interest. Flour is cosUnff Roughly JSO a ton, reckoning the .dollar TulVnormal rate of exchange - ently American flour would cost a JSdv Zealand, buyer well over f0 a tc> a lowing for the adverse rate of exchange. S makes the New Zealand price look C, ''sSgar is boing quoted at from 7d to lOd per pound wholesale, reckoning still at the normal rate of exchange. Tho stuffs <eem to bo higher priced than in vT Zealand. Loud complaints a e nu e, ut t people do not seem to advancing and P 'i-tfe that the Go—. petrol or kerosene, ■
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 142, 11 March 1920, Page 4
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162SOARING PRICES Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 142, 11 March 1920, Page 4
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