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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 122, 21 February 1928, Page 12

UNEMPLOYMENT SUGGESTED REMEDY. Unemployment cannot be dismissed from our midst by the waving of a wand or muttering weird incantations. It is a problem which modern civilisation must solve in a more practical manner and only after due thought and consideration. The ranks of the unemployed in the cities are augmented by the numbers of men closely associated with our primary industries, who seek employment in the towns during the off season. Freezing works up and down the country in the centre of fanning communities are a big factor in helping, to establish country workers in their own cottages, converting them into permanent rural workers. Waingawa Freezing Works in the Wairarapa district employs a considerable number of men, the weekly wages paid out sometimes totalling over £2OOO. If works like these are forced to shut down, then the burden of unemployment becomes heavier to bear, and in addition, the farming districts are poorer owing to lessened competition for stock, ;.nd lower prices due to Joss of “bloom” that is inevitably caused when animals are railed long journeys to distant freezing works.Advt.

A GUIDE TO THE HOUSEWIFECAULIFLOWERS ARE DEARER The following list of cash retail prices gives a fair indication of what is behig ; ehXd over the counter in the city. The quotations do not in-r-inde delivery. Suburban prices are not quoted: Vegetables.-Cauliflowers are now »d. to J/- each; cabbages ye jd to Od each; marrows are 3d. and 4d. each; cucumbers are 2d. to 4d each- pumpkin is 2d. lb.; butter beans are 4d. lb.; French beans .ire Id to f l lb.; green peas are 3d. to fid. lb.; beetroot is 3d. per bund e; can-Ms parsnips and turnips are 3d. per bunch; spring omons are 2d. per bunch; onions are 3d. per lb.; swedes are-d. per . Fruit—Peaches are 4d. and fid. lb.; cooking plums are 3d. lb., and eating plums Cd and Bd. Ib.; apricots are fid. and 8d lb.; nectarines are lOd. Ib.; tomatoes are 3d. to Od. lb.; lemons are 3d. each, greengages are fid. and Bd. lb.; grapes are 1/6 to 3/- lb.; oranges are 3/and 4/- doz.; pineapples are 1/0 to 2/0 each; eating apples are 4d. to 8d lb.; dessert pears 4d. to Bd. lb.; grape fruit are fid. and Bd. each Meat.-Forequarters of lamb are 9d. lb.; chops for stewing are -d. lb.; corned pork is 9d. Ib.; gravy beef is sd. lb.; sirloin of bee is .d. Ib., and ribs of beef are 7d. lb.: legs of mutton arc 9d. and It d. lb , and mutton chops sell at 9d. lb. Tripe, fid. lb.; m.ncemeat od. Ib corned beef 7d. and Bd. per lb.; beef sausages are Od. lb., and pork SaUSi Xh.-Kound l flth l i’s Od. and 7d. Ib.; flat flsh is lOd. 11).. and smoked fiSl ' Gi'oeeries(-New laid eggs are 2/2 doz.. and 1/fi doz (medium size). Good table butter is 1/6 lb., and pure whey butter is 1/4 lb. Cooked ham is 2/2 and 2/6 lb.; prunes are fid. Ib.; salmon is fid. and l/« tin; mild cheese is lid. and 1/- lb.; matured cheese is 1/- and 1/4 lb., N.Z. Stilton cheese is 3/- lb.; condensed milk is Od. and 1/- per tin; dates arc Bd. packet, and 4d. lb. loose. Sugar is 10/6 for a 701 b. bag; bulk honey and elover honey sell at lOd. Ib.; rice, sago, barley and tapmea are all 3d. Ib. Spanish muscatels are 1/6 per packet, and Californian muscatels are 1/10 per packet. Turliish figs are !/• IK