PUBLIC INDIGNATION.
SOME BRITISH QUOTATIONS.
(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)
London, Feb. 18. Ever-soaring prices are exciting public indignation.
The reel of cotton lias been advanced 2£d to lOd, although the Coats Company made a profit of £3,995,000 last year.
The "Daily Express" states that the Profiteering Sub-Committee is reporting that even the charge of 7-id per reel was not justified.
The prices of cigarettes, cigars and tobacco have again been advanced though the Imperial Tobacco Company in 1919 made a profit of £4,662,000 Clothing is tending upward, also butter and fares by taxicabs, trams and 'buses. •
Almost the only item that is cheaper is eggs, which are retailing a t 3d each instead of the 3d charged during the war time. ..*=»■*"•
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Colonist, Volume LXII, Issue 15308, 23 February 1920, Page 5
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122PUBLIC INDIGNATION. Colonist, Volume LXII, Issue 15308, 23 February 1920, Page 5
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