TO-DAY'S PRICES.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 October 1920, Page 6

TO-DAY'S PRICES.

BENZINE DEARER. SHORTAGE OF POTATOES. With the frequent changes 111 prices of everyday articles which the housewife has to liny, the following brief summary ofc the market conditions reported in Now Plymouth yesterday will interest every woman who shops for the home:— Benzine.—-Supplies landing in Wellington ironi Sun Francisco arc quoted at liTs lid per case f.o.b. Wellington. Our recent prediction that tlic price would read) -Ids is thus verified, as local dealers have had to buy on tilts basis, and with charges it is equal to 4fts (id at New Plymouth. The prospects of a more favorable conversion rate loolr fairly good, and though the price of petrol in America i s iinner than ever, a fall in the value oi the dollar would ease the price of benzine here.

flams.—Jlams advanced a further Id per Ih, hut this rise did not affect the price of bacon: The latter is almost unobtainable temporarily. Pickles—heading packers have advanced to one to 22s Gd.

Tinned ISfilk.—.Supplies now arriving are at the new price.

Dessiciited Cocoanut.—The heavy recent falls have stopped, and the market has advanced Id per lb on the lowest rmotations.

Jollv Crysta ; s.—A further vise iY; ex ported: also a difficulty in getting or ders filled, owing to (he sugar short age.

Cannod and Dried Fruits.—Australia •* apparently cxportin.f henvilv to England, ami the eosi. of replacement for Xew Zealand buyert- ihigher than. the ileal selling prices. Potatoes.—Market, in th, is a trifle easier. Imt there i« a j'.hi,! demand hero, and supplies are very shor!; indeed. Ten.—Though no word iws been received from outside packers as to the effect on iheir prices of the recent full in the rupee, a well-known local 'mind has been reduced su'bMf.ntialiv.

ComJy's Crystals.—Our previous remarks in lliis column on this line should refer to pprnuvivimtie of notash. There is some confusion in the public mind, fostered possibly by certain dealers, (hat the Uvo lines are identical, hut iiuch is far from being {he ease. White i);"inanyana!:o o" potash is an excellent lloor .-tain it has earned. serious trouble when use*] mcdii-inaily instead of the g-eimino Condy's crystals.