GERMANY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXX, Issue LXXX, 7 January 1920, Page 7

GERMANY.

NEW OFFICIAL FOOD PRICES

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT

(Received Jan. 7, 9.45 a.m.)

BERLIN, Jan. 5. New official prices include: Flour 7^d per lb, bread 6id, potatoes 2fd. Potatoes are in short supply, and a "full ration is not available, and may l)e exhausted in March. Butter is. sold at 12s 4d per lb, representing a "rise of 100- per cent, margarine 65d (?), meat 4s 3d per lb, the ration beinghalf a pound weekly.

There is an acute shortage of coal. The majority of houses seem to be ■without coal, and briquettes are sellIng at 145s per ton.