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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13421, 7 July 1911, Page 4

“When will foodstuffs stop rising in mice?" seems to he a general topic at the present time. Wlmt with butter at Is id per lb, and likely to rise to Is 9d, as a well-known provider informed us to-day, and meat on a rising market, and with vegetables scarcer and higher in price than they have licen for soma time, the average housewife has to be more (ban careful to make, ends meet. Something ought to be done to combat against these high prices ruling, and it appears that r big move has been made in an indirect way against the trouble, one at least careful housewife has solved the mystery of meeting the demands made on her living allowance. While travelling home in the train she was overhead telling one of her friends how she had balanced things by going to McOrncr’s great winter sale and buying her top-coat there, exactly what she wanted, and for Just half the price she expected to pay for it, and that everybody could do the same, as they had a beautiful selection to elmr, a- from, yu.l at inanelhmsly low prices.