THEN AND NOW
[BY TBUSOBAPH— SPICIAL 10 TOT POST.] AUCKLAND, This- Day.. We ar« hearing a great deal just now about the cost of- living, and probably not without i cause, but old identities must wonder what would be thought nowadays if the prices which ruled half a century ago were still in force. A writer In tho Herald quotes from_ a number of th* Maori Messenger, printed in. Auckland in 3855, for tho New Zealand Government, and in which under "Aucktaafl Markets" the following quotations are given t —Flour, fine £35 per ton, seconds .£32 per ton ; potatoes, new £10 per ton ; wheat, 12s per bushel ; oats, 8s per bushel ; maize, 8s per bushel ) butter, Xs 6d per lb; fowls, 2s 6d each; ducks, 3» 6d each ; geese, 7& earn ; fresh beef, 8d per lb ; fresh mutton, 8d per lb ; tea, £7 per boxj coffee, 10d pei lb; sugar, 4d per lb ; candles, 2s 6d pet lb ; boots (Napoleon) £1 15s per pair and (Wellington) £1 12s p£r pair; piough horses, £55 each ; cart horses, £b0 each ; saddle horses £30 each.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 1, 1 July 1912, Page 3
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182THEN AND NOW Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 1, 1 July 1912, Page 3
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