HIGH THICKS AT HOME
CAUSE PUBLIC INDIGNATION. -By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, February 18. Ever-soaring prices are now exciting public indigation. The reel of cotton has adveueed in price from 2id to 10d. This is despite the fact that Coats’ firm made a profit of £3,995,000 last year. The “Daily Express” states that the profiteering sub-Commit-tee is reporting that even a charge ol ‘id a reel is not justified. The prices of cigarettes, cigars and tobacco have again been advanced,
though the Imperial Tobacco Coy., in 1919° made a profit of £4,662,000. Clothing is tending upward, also butter ; and fares by taxicabs, trams and buses. Almost the only item that is cheaper is eggs, which are retailing at 3d, in stead of the 5d charged during the war.
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 February 1920, Page 1
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