PRICES OF COMMODITIES.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13825, 21 July 1915, Page 3

PRICES OF COMMODITIES.

SHORTAGE OF TEA PREDICTED

(Received July 20, 9.55 p.m.)

Sydney, July 20,

The price of butter, including import duty, has been fixed at 166s Bd, and the retail price at Is 10d.

Restaurateurs have decided upon an all-round increase in the price of meals, owing to the dearness of foodstuffs.

Before the Commodities Commission, supporting a rise in the price of tea, merchants predicted a world's shortage owing to the enormous demands of Russia and the armies of other nations. Australian supplies would last only a month.