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Press, Volume LVI, Issue 17019, 16 December 1920, Page 3

The Taisinjr of prices still goes me; , - ; rily on (says the "Now Zealand Tiiaes 1, ). The latest increase in "Wellington' is in tho laundry line, 2W now being charged j for "doing up :, a. linen collar for Whicu j a. week] ago "2d was charged. At tho j beginning of tho war the price was lsd i per collar, which figure was maintain- | ~ed during most of the time hostilities ; "rre'ro in progress. Then another half- ' penny -iras put on, and twopence has been"the. standing rate until a week' ago., when the barometer rose another point. Thci reason of the rise seemv enshrouded irt mystery, for it is contend- '. ei! that the present price of ttarc-h. does ; not warrant it. One resident -.vho-'W'as ! to bavo called at a laundry a fortnight; ago tor ft dozen linen rollars, let the matter stand o\-er till last week, and , when he rolled up to collect his parcel i was mulcted by the suave Celestial in ! charge to the estent of h;tlf-n-rrovni. j Hβ proteiEt-ed. ond asserted tluft as tlw irork "was dane nrior to the risi> ho should <z?t p.lt collars at the old rate —' 2? for thr> <!oi:en. But John v.-as ul»«iurate —"no no colla:" The \ customer jjaid up. [