BRITISH FOOD PRICES
Increases Last Year London, March 22. A report by /the Council of the Food (Defence Plans) Department states that food prices increased more during the year ended December 1, 1937, than during the two previous years. The combined price index was 46 per cent, above that of 1914. The greatest increases xvere in respect to bread, cheese, sugar, margarine, meat, and butter.
The report states that the rises have aroused considerable concern, but that the recoverj - from tlie depression inevitably meant a rise in prices.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 153, 25 March 1938, Page 12
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88BRITISH FOOD PRICES Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 153, 25 March 1938, Page 12
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