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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13845, 5 March 1909, Page 4

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<The. Christchureh " Press " "lias been, looting-:up records of wheat prices in pasirvears; arid publishes *lie following highest and lowest and average price for:each decade 8s- 8d; -'67, 3s 3d for ten years, \'6o-'7O, 6s; '70;;: 3s 9Ad. '77,: 6s; average '7O-'BO, 4£=6d; 'Bf, '4s 34d;" 'BS, 2s "llf d; aver-agWßo-'9O; 3s 9dp'94, ,2s 63d; '97, 4si3|d- average 1890-1900,-3s 4Jd: .'Ol, 2sIM; 'OB, 4s. 1900-' 08, 3s4ld. A : similaf a-esearch regarding the-prices of oats resulted as follows: '6G-'7O, 4s; '74, 4s 6|d; '76, Is 6id; average '7O-'BO, 2s .4d; average 'BO to -•90" 2s Id with range from Is 8d to 2s lOid: '95, Is 7d; '9B, 2s 63d; average; Is lid -1904; is :6Jd; 'OB, 2s 5Jd; average 1900-' 08, 2s Id. From the foregoing figures 'it wilk be seen that wheat and oats, says the-" Press, declined steadilv, decade/. by decade, till the' end of the century. -In both tlie decline was less rapid and the fluctuations less violent as the end of the century approached. In both, again, the decline ceased, with-the new century arid an anward tendency made itself apparent. —. '■--•;/. .'.'■ • ■