TOBACCO PRICES.
INCREASE IN CAPSTAN. Until about a week ago full strength Capstan tobacco was being sold retail at Is fid a tin. To-dav the price is Is lid. Several months ago the retail price was la lid. but owing to the fact that heavy supplies were held in the country a reduction in price had to be made in order to clear them, full strength Capstan being known in the trade as a slow-selling line. A tobacconist stated to-day that the wholesale price of full-strength Capstan was increased, or in other words put back to the old price about two months ago, hut the tobacconists had decided not to increase their price until they had sold all the stocks purchased at +h ' r^-lprripn.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17028, 30 April 1923, Page 7
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124TOBACCO PRICES. Star (Christchurch), Issue 17028, 30 April 1923, Page 7
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