SOARING PRICES

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160811, 19 November 1920, Page 5

SOARING PRICES

THE LOAD WE CARET. While housewives are anxiously await* ing the turn of the tide in prices, few people, until a comparison is placed be* fore them, realise the abnormal advance in *prices that has taken place in the last few years in articles of every-day usa in the home. The increases have been placed on steadily, until it will astonish the public to know the load they are carrying. The following prices were taken at random from a circular issued bv a Wanganui retailer in 1015, and when compared with those of to-day make in* teres ting reading. The 1915 price i$ given first in each instance:— 1915 1920

i. d. s. d. 1A Sugar 61b 1 0 0 6$ per lb Sago 6lb 1 0 0 6 per lb Rice 51b 1 0 0 9 pet lb Cleaned Currants * 31b 1 0 Dessert Apricots 1 8 per lb tin 0 10 2 0 tin Edmond’s Baking • Powder ... tm 0 10 2 9 tin Candles pkt 0 6 Wax Vestas, Bryant and May’s 1 4 packet gross 3 4 12 0 gross Fine Salt ... cwt 3 9 14 0 cwt Oatina bag 0 11 2 0 bag Oatmeal, 251bbag 3 6 7 9 bag Cube Sugar ... lb 0 3 Brown’s Cornflour 0 9 per lb 3 packets 1 0 Amber Tips Tea 1 4 packet lb Is 8d and 2 0 3 2 per lb Bell Tea lb 2 0 3 6 per lb Factory Butter 1 2 2 3 per lb Bacon ...... lb 1 0 White China Cups 1 10 per la and Saucers doz 3 11 Pink and Gold Breakfast Cups 20 6 dozen and Saucers doz 4 11 White Dinner y 24 0 dozen Plates doz 3 6 16 0 dozen It is interesting also to note that th/ profits to the retailers in 1918 were n»uc| better than at the present tiauw