WAR PRICES
OCTOBER ADVANCES
(British Official Wireless.) (Received November 18, 11 a.m.) RUGBY, November 17,
Wholesale prices in Great Britain, as measured by the Board of Trade monthly index number, were about 1 per cent, higher in October than they were in September. Aggregate increases since the outbreak oi the war are:—General index, 45| per cent.; food prices, 58& per cent;! . industrial materials and manufactured articles, 39 per cent. Comparative food prices published 1 by "The Economist,' London, September 9, 1939, and September 3. 1940:— Sept., 1930. Sept., 1940. Flour, 2801b 21/6 25/6 Rice, cwt 8/- 10/N.Z. mutton, 81b 2/4 to 3/0 4/4 N.Z. lamb, 81b 4/4 to 5/4 — Bacon, English, cwt .. 100/- 113/6 Butter, N.Z., cwt 123/- to 124/- 143/Cheese, N.Z., cwt 61/- 85/Eggs, 120 eggs 17/6 to 18/- 28/Lard. U.S.A., cwt 41/- 64/Potatoes,- cwt 5/- to 6/- 6/6 Sugar, cwt 22/414 40/6 Tea, Indian, 1b 16.4 d No quote Ceylon, lb 15.06 d No quote Coal, house, ton, at pit 22/- to 24/- 23/6
In the September, 1940, quotations, butter and cheese, and mutton and lamb are "imported," and household coal is not given, but "gas" quality is quoted.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 121, 18 November 1940, Page 10
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