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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 136, 15 February 1915, Page 3

At a public meeting held in the Wellington Town Hall, on Wednesday evening, Mr. David McLaren road a list of increases in the foodstuffs; the comparison made being the prices which ruled in July, 1914, and January of this year. The list embodied practically every common necessity in the kitchen. Some of the items were (the figures in parenthesis refer to the January prices):— Flour, 251 b, 3/ (4/9); flour, 501 b, 5/9 (9/3); flour, 1001 b, 1.1/- (IS/-); currants, 4d (sd); sugar, sGlb, S/G (11/6); bread, 7d (9d); baking powder, Gd to lid (Sd to 1/3); cream of tartar, 1/4 (2/G). Butter and biscuits had advanced Id per lb, dates and figs Id per lb, tartaric acid 1/- per lb, cornflour Id per lb, sultanas and raisins Id per lb, preserved meats 15 per cent. Mr. McLaren mentioned some fifty articles in which increases had been made. When you seo a man—smiling lazily through the fragrant light blue smokerings from the seasoned briar between his teeth—that's GOLDEN EAGLE comfort. The slight bungle in his vest pocket betokens n* ft ?T