wiseing the wholesale price niaterials, 6.8 per cent; and sundries, lee nimber. for January the|1.6 per cent. On the other hand, Siarkets of the Ministry cereals; other food products and for Bronce states: fuels fell 0.1 per cent., 0.7 per cent. The tutd index number for this and 4 per cent, respectively. As to nth Lo Teh ing 1.6 jor cent. the individual commodities, 72 witness" rises. Among. them ile turned 92 per cent. upwards ale, per cent;—building kinds saw an advance, 50 kinds went downward, whereas the Te-maining 25 were normal. The following table bears out this fact. material-T 1.7 per sents Index No. (Percent (Percentage) Normat 4 02
1 3
2 Sun Tol As the cotaplisientary sales in the is ina New Year ured in this period, prices are formally dener However fluriag this nws: h. she local mre fawn uric Wythe returning Marshal th sefeoted. army, hat mort b-me-s hotes: delayed operiig cpl wentaey. sao. Consequently, tne total index, nam-jer reorder' tt por sant. higher nly. Althoich voarly halt of the feonmodilies anrt ries, There wee nleracces! by che fall of 50 other ds. Mores ing tv the stight decline of rate, certain among the various groups. This was almost entirely due to pure antimony which was quoted at Tls. 275 in the first week of December, and jumped to Tls. 365 at the end fof that month, while until the last week of this month it ascended as with as Tls. 410, being thus Tls. 136 dearer within these two months and 561.3 per cent. in advance of pre-war quotations. Next were industrial materials which moved er cent. upward because of the increase of dyestuffs in their complimentary sales. As the quotations of coal and fuel were lower, commodities ta! ly run of th conversion fe <0 taels.
Metals rerix 8 per cent. higher ax compared with last month, being in rise the index number of fuds fell 4 per cent.
Our monthly figures, since Jan-wary, 1924, are given below: ruary 40.35: March. 40.25: April
}39.90. Spot cotton quotations the market are as follow: well as the average monthly rates—
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