HIGH PRICES.
fy ; A letter received by last English mail by a Wanganui resident from relatives in Scotland indicates that high prices are ruling in the Old Land as well as in this Dominion. The writer says that at Hamilton (near Glasgow) butter is ■jelling at 2s 6d per lb, cheese Is Bd, -teak 2s 4d, stew beef Is lOd, milk 3s gallon, boots from 27s to 455, and a suit of clothes from £7 10s. The prices indicate grave anomalies . and injustices. Probably most striking of all is that the New Zealand farmer is sell- ; ing his meat at 4-Jd and the consumer i at Home is paying 2s 4d per lb for i steak. Who are the profiteers? Echo ' answers who” bbmbbbmciwbbbmmbimiwbmmi
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Otaki Mail, Volume 26, 18 July 1919, Page 4
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124HIGH PRICES. Otaki Mail, Volume 26, 18 July 1919, Page 4
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