Rubens These Motels are have pushed their prices up., No doubt materials cost more nowadays and, perhaps, the "increased, cost of living" has something to do with the*case. Statistics show that woollen goods have increased in price to an alarming extent. Shoes and boots are not very much dearer and some Chinese shoe-
HOTEL RUDENS, Buckinghm Palace Reed, feclog Buckingham HOTEL REMBRANDT, South Ken. sean, acting the Vitra an Alert Tang on Application to Manag makers turn out quite a decent man's shoe for $9—$10. The imported ones cost anything up to $30 a pair. The writer will not. refer to ladies' clothes and shoes— they can cost anything.
These have gone up in price during the past ten years to a very considerable extent. Fifteen years ago good gin could be bought for 15 ctu a bottle. It is now over $2. Whisky was less than §2 a bottle during the same period. Now it is nearly $5. All other liquors have increased' in price in about the same ratio, and there is every prospect that even higher prices wil be seen within the next few weeks.
Very serious increases have taken place within the last few years. Even in 1926, Quaker: oats could be bought at about 45 ets. a tin—it is now 65 ets. to 75 ets. according to the store at which it is bought, Tinned fruits and vegetables have advanced fully 50 per cent. within, the past five years. For instance, 'a good brand of asparagus could be bought for 66 cts. a tin four years ego.
The same brand now is close toa dollar.
To sum up the situation and taking the year 1925 at 100, the increase in the cost of living in shanghai to date, is nearly 40 per cent. and the purchasing power of the Mexican dollar has diminished The Medium That
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.