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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 273, 22 December 1914, Page 11

The effects of the war are making themselves felt very severely in the photographic business. Nearly all the chemicals used by New Zealand photographers have been manufactured in Germany, and the supply is now completely stopped. The result has been th&t prices have risen by big percentages. Amidol alone has increased 600 per cent, in price, while potassium bromide, which used to cost 3/- per lb, is now 33/- per lb, an increase of 1000 per cent. A peculiar fact is that a number of the chemicals are cheaper in New Zealand than in England. "Mark Lane Express'' gives some interesting figures in comparing the prices of wheat at different critical periods of the world's history. During the time of the struggle with Napoleon the extraordinary price of 126/6 per quarter (nearly 15/10 per bushel) was reached. During the period of the Crimean war the average was 55/11 per quarter (nearly 7/- per bushel), and after the siege of .Paris in 1870, 2d or 3d per quarter less. After the present war— : the greatest in the world's history-—had been waged for over two months, the price was under 39/- per quarter. . Statesmen in Great Britain are anxious that farmers in that country should increase their wheat areas, to bring the total up to the amount cropped in 1870, at any rate. They consider that the price will be higher next year, as nations which have all their able-bodied men under arms will not be able to put in wljeat.