WHEN TIMES WERE HARD
Socne people are never satisfied. We hear complaints of the increased cost of living. These food prices during the Siege of Gibraltar in 1779 are something to grumble about: — Fresh beef, per pound 4/10J, pork 4/1, eheese, per lb. 4/1, salt and butter, per lb. 4/ly, potatoes, per lb. 2/6, Ioaf sugar, per lb. 17/1, flour, per lb. 2/1, tea, per lb. £2 5/6, eggs, per dozen 4/-, fowls, per pair £1 1/114, a goose £1 10/4, a turkey £2 8/9. The figures should help to soothe the dissatisfied housekeeper. They show that things are not yet as bad as it is possible for them to be.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 45, 9 March 1937, Page 5
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