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WHOLESALE PRICE CHANGES.
Wholesale prices in the Colony during the year 1984 recorded decreases of 11.6% as compared with 1988, 25.2% as compared with 1982, 33.0% as compared with 1931, 14.8% as compared with 1924, and 8.5% as compared with the base period of 1922.
As compared with 1933 there were decreases in 1934 in each of the four groups of commodities, the index number of Foodstuffs declining 16.8%, Textiles 11.4%, Metals and Minerals 9.6%, and Miscellane cus Items 7.5% ·
The following table shows the course of local wholesale price changes since 1913: —
Groups.
Foodstuffs
Textiles
Metals...
Miscellaneous
:
Average...
Beans
Beef
Eggs...
Foodstuffs.
Flour (Wheat)...
Salt Fish
Fruits, Fresh
Lard
Milk (Condensed}
Mutton
Onions
Peanut Oil
Pork
Fotatoes
Poultry
Rice (Broken)
Rice (White)
Sugar (Raw)
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Vegetables (Dried, etc.)
Vermicelli
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1922 - 100.
1913.
1924.
1931.
1932.
1933.
1934.
73.6
106.1
144.3
126.5
113.4
94.8
55.1
112.5
135.8
125.2
97.0
85.9
63.2
102.3
140.9
128.1
107.8
97.4
64.2
106.3
125.4
109.7
95.7
88.5
64.0
106.8
136.6
122.4
103.5
91.5
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INDIVIDUAL AVERAGES.
1922 - 100.
1924.
1931.
1932.
1933.
1934.
100.9
130.9
119.6
101.3
83.9
116.9
218.0
152.3
173.2
121.3
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94.5
131.1
104.5
96.7
86.0
96.4
114.0
98.5
85.7
75.8
87.6
125.9
150.0
153.4
137.1
123.4
306.7
274.5
250.1
233.0
106.9
138.0
114.7
101.2
78.5
92.2
185.2
176.8
170.9
137.9
114.3
173.9
132.0
139.4
143.2
103.1 *
141.1
104.1
81.6
63.9
111.6
117.1
122.1
101.7
73.1
103.6
133.8
119.8
109.6
87.3
93.4
109.0
109.6
96.2
71.8
111.0
175.2
147.7
117.0
88.8
112.3
126.1
118.3
88.9
60.1
110.2
133.2
113.5
93.5
72.2
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135.8
99.0
86.6
78.7
60.5
96.3
64.3
56.8
45.2
45.4
108.5
120.2
101.7
80.3
66.0
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