PRICES STILL SOARING.!
POOD 131 PER CENT DEARER IN ENGLAND. Prices are still soaring in England. According lo the “Labour Gazette’’ the average increase in retail }>riccs of the principal articles of food at November Ist was .131 per cent, as compared with July. 1911, the, corresponding figure for October Ist being 192 per cent, on the basis of the prewar standard oi‘ consumption.
Taking into account Louse rent, clothing, fuel and light, etc., in addition to food, the average increase, at November i was about 120 per c„cnt, as compared with 120 per cent a month earlier.
I Curiosity led some people to eom- | .pare the cost of the 1911 pudding with the pudding made last. year. ’-She result was somewhat startling and worked out like this: — 1911. 1919. Sultanas .... 5d a lit Is fid Currants old a lb Is 3d Suet Sd a Mi Is' Sd -Eggs under Id each Os old f. Apples 21 u lit 0s Id i Almonds 3? 51 alb ' 3s 6d jj i> oc i lid a lit 3s 6d I ,Sugar lida 3b j- Os SJd I Brandy at least J times as expensive.
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Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 18 February 1920, Page 4
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192PRICES STILL SOARING.! Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 18 February 1920, Page 4
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