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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 7 August 1917, Page 6

The -wholesale prices of tobacco and cigarettes have been raised, tobacco by 4d per lb., cigarettes by Is per 1060. The advance is attributed to the heavy freights and to war risk insurance. And now the tariff is also to be increased. Shipping freights in cigarettes arc now 120 s, as compared with 40s ■before the war, and in addition the goods carry over-risk insurances, ranging from £2 2s to £5 5s per rent, a charge that did not exist befere the war. The last general rise in tobacco itself, was ip March. 1914. There has been no advance since, except in the case of one particular tobacco —an advance made in 1915. Prices of cigarettes have been unchanged durieg the whole war period.