WHAT GERMANS HAVE TO PAY.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11471, 25 February 1918, Page 2

WHAT GERMANS HAVE TO PAY.

The following is quoted from the ' 'Manchester Guardian” :—"When people feel discouraged by tlio high prices of commodities in common use they will do well to consider what the Geramns are undergoing. Wo have before ns a list of prices which loading Berlin textile houses are uemanding in the wholesale trade. Woollen and worsted piece', goods, which before the war were ;!s to -Is (id per yard are now 40s to .(as. Half-woollens have gone up from Is (id and 2s (id to 24s to 27s (id per yard, velvets from 3s (id to (is to -10 sto 50s per yard, cotton shirting from 2 ! 7d to Os to 7s per yard, men’s linen collars from (id to 2s Ud each, and women’s stockings from Is (id to 2s (id to 12s to los per pair. Other articles arc priced in proportion, and charges are further increased afterwards by tlio profits of the retailers. liven then there is no certainty ox securing what is wanted. ”