REDUCTION IN PRICES.

Taihape Daily Times, 19 June 1919, Page 6

REDUCTIO N IN PRICES.

ARRIVAL OF SHIPMENTS. SALT, MATCHES, IRON, AND WIRE. The reduction in the prices of salt and safety matches. and‘ of roofing iron and fencing wire, was the subject of inquiries made on ‘Monday ffrom general merchandise and hardware firms. Salt, which, at. the height of the scarcity, toward the end of the war, was selling up to £lB a ton, has dropped to half that price. The arrival of‘man_v transports, with large quantities of salt, has caused the fall. A huge shipment from Australia of Japanese matches, of which the merchants had no intinmtion, has been mainly responsible tor the decrease in the price of safety matches. The present retail price is about half the wholesale price ruling last year, when as much as Rs (id a gross was obtained. Roofing iron has dropped from. about £95 to £IOO a ton to £55 :1 ton, and fencing wire from £65 a ton to £3O. Indications from the United States point to an increased price for iron and Wire, however, shipments from England are most, uncertain, and prices are consequently higher than those ruling in the States. White lead has declined from £llO -a ton to £BO, but. has now gone up again to £9O. Raw linseed oil hw increased from 8/6 a gallon to 10/6. The whole position in the hardware trade is stated to be one of great uncertainty. The opinion was expressed by the Manager of one hardware firm that the low prices at which some goods had been sold here was due to panic.——— Auckland Herald.

F A meeting of WesTt Coast farmers ?was held at Palnlel"st-on North on Monjday, the object of the meeting being ito discuss the question of farmers Waking political action at the next election. 0110 of the speakers was Mr Feild, M.P., for Otaki, and he remarked that Bvolshevism was the deadly ‘peril thfeatening New Zealand. It was the duty of the fal'mel's and every right thinking man to see that such an octopus did not get :1 hold. The fact that the Liberal Party was going on its own lines would raise enormous difficulties, and possibly in some instances Labour candidates would slip in and the Labour Party would win seats that did not belong to it. F 1228. all sizes, })l'm'.ll?.‘:l_';)lC at Somerville~’s~——(:\dvL.;

A large tnrasher shark, about loft. in length, was caught by the trawler Baroona, which has just returned -.F;*om the Tiri fishing-grounds_ The shark caused not a little excitement aboard, and, in spite of the efforts of the dazen employees, literally held the clock for about 15 mi*nutCS. Eventually, however, he exhausted himself by lashing the deck with hisheavy tail, and incidentally damaging the net in Vihicl‘. he was caught. ‘ The thrasher shark is well known as the WhalP—kiiling variety, and, as he usually keeps near the surface, it is very unusual to finfl one in a trawling not. When colds and influenza are prevalent let NAZOL protect your family. One close a -day keeps colds away. Good for all ages. Sixty doses 1/6. 4