3 to speculative interest, were conductive to an upward tendency.
Wheat:—The healthy technical position of the market, comparative cheapness and light hedging encouraged Support on easy spots. However, new incentive is not apparent for a material rament.
rn:—The market ruled firm, but there was little corn for sale.
Rubber:—Trading was extremely quiet. Prices advanced easily on small buy-
Hides:—With the lack of trade incentive, the market follows the action of 10 West African shipping had Cocoa: The possibility of interference The E the poorest section of the population. Recent studies of family expenditure at various income levels in the United States have thrown light on the malnutrition of families with low incomes, In 1935 some 29,400,000 families spent $13,700 millions on food, but as many as 4,200,000 families, or 14 per cent. of the total, accounted for only $848 millions of the whole food bill These families, with an average annual] income of $312, spend about $1 on food in a week for each member of the family, which works out at about 5 cents per person per meal. The family with an income of $1,000 to $1,500 a year spends about twice as much. And, divided into kinds of food, the difference means that under $500 families are buying 41.6 per cent. less vegetables, 6L7 per cent, less fruit, 57.1 per cent. less dairy produce and 544 per cent. less meat than their far from wealthy neighbours,
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