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Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 208, 31 August 1920, Page 5

y The next supply of coal for the Auckr. ! land Gas Company is expected by the 0 Kamona from Westport on Thursday, c • and a load of coal from Newcastle is due ■_■ by the Katoa on Saturday. In any j- i event the present reduction in pressure is I will continue for the remainder of this n j week, and if the Kamona does not ie | arrive as expected the manager of the r, | company, Mr. J. Lowe, states that a r- ! further curtailment of the pressure will ti have to be made. J* To-morrow morning the -price of milk 15 j retailed in the Auckland district will be ,c : eightpence a quart, a rise of one penny ro I over to-day's figure. Tlie Board of Trade lc j has fixed this price, which will operate °" I from September 1 till April 30 next year. , | From May 1 till August 31 next the i price will be ninepence. :d A Wanganui retailer states that this n- is the first season during his experience in business that such an extenive demand has been made for packets of vegetable seeds. He considers this is an indication of the pinch of the high cost _ of living being felt, particularly in re- , n gard to the retail prices of vegetables in during the winter months, and a desire 1 to counteract it by householders culti- __ vat ing their own garden patches. es Ladies' magfinificent im. beaver coats, 155/, reduced to 119/6. —Economic Sale, re °PP- Town Hall.—(d.) ie Men's good dark striped "Hardware" c- trousers, reduced to 18/11. —Economic Sale. opp. lowa Hall.—(Ad.)