PRICE OF CIGARETTES
TOBACCONISTS PESSIMISTIC
(By Telegraph.)
(Special to "The Evening Post.") AUCKLAND, sth August. Complaints have been received that the retail prices of ■-■.■several ■ leading brands of cigarettes hay© been increased at some shops and not at others. The position is that most of the leading tobacconists have agreed not to increase the price of cigarettes selling at 9d a packet, although the wholesale prices have been increased on an average about a penny a packet. The tobacconists have decided to carry the extra cost themselves, in order to light the competition of the "cut rato" shops. Mr. R. M. Carter, president of th© Auckland Tobacconists' Association, said yesterday that it was a certainty that the majority of the tobacconists would go out of business, and the next six months would see. them go out very quickly. Several city hotels have increased the price of cigarettes to tonpence, but the majority have not.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 32, 6 August 1930, Page 15
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PRICE OF CIGARETTES
Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 32, 6 August 1930, Page 15
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