PRICE OF TOBACCO.
ALL KINDS AFFECTED. CIGARS AT OLD RATES FOR NATIONAL WEEK. Consequent on.tho increased duty on cigarettes, the price of these luxuries has already been advanced by tobacconists throughout the city.. Oiv.in£ to an increase by the warehouses in the price of plug tobacco, a retail increase in these lines has also boon decided on, although not yet. imposed, since tho duty on pipe, tobacco has not been increased- Mr R. Moppy, president of the Tobacconists' Association, was asked this morning i-o stato, th<?. (present increases, and he did so as follows: Old. Now. p. d. s. d. Cigarettes (lO'fl) - . .06 07 „ (20's> . . .10 12 „ (50's) • . .26 210 „ ~ (sp.) . . .09 010 All tobacco in tins . .10 11 Plug- tobacco . 9d and lOd 10d and lid Cigais—Old price?. In the case of cigars, which are taxed according to weight, Mr Hoppy said that it. had been decided to retain the old prices during Grand National Week, but, nn increase would be decided nipon immediately afterwards.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12084, 13 August 1917, Page 5
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