A list. of Toodstuffs and general commodities with their maximum prices last year and their cost today is here give Price 1920. 31, 192i Starch per Ib. 9 44 Soap per Ib. M 11 10 Bread 4 Ib. loaf 1.1 12 Sugar per Ib. 1.2 9 Margarine per Ib. 1.0 1.0 Tea per 2.10 24 Jam per Ib. 1.06 10 Bacon per Ib, 3.0 2.4 Oatmeal 4s 45 Potatoes 5 Ibs.
Rice per Ib. 8 6 Cheese per Ib. 1.8 18 Butter per Ib. 4.3 33 The above prices refer in each Eggs 6 4 instance to goods of a fair average quality, for better quality goods the prices are of course higher, and in some instances they may be lower; sugar for instance can be bought at 6d. per pound, but it has indifferent sweetening quality ies, Meat varies very largely in price. Poor quality foreign meat is in some instances as low as 10d. per pound, but the average price of geod English meat is about 2s. 2d., a general reduction of about 10d. per th. from its highest figure.
Fish is very dear, but its high cost is probably seasonal, as it is always more expensive in midwinter.
Boots sup CLOTHES.
In boots and wearing apparel, the reductions in price are much more marked, prices in general showing a fall of about 25 per cent. The great reductions alleged in the sale advertisements of English newspapers should be received with considerable caution, as the goods
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