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WHOLESALE PRICE CHANGES

Wholesale prices in Hong Kong during the year 1933, showed decreases of 15.4% as compared with 1932, 24.2% as compared with 1931, 3.1% as compared with 1924, and increases of 3.5% as compared with the base period of 1922, and 61.7% as compared with

1913.

There were decreases in each of the four groups of commodities in 1933, as compared with 1932: Foodstuffs declining by 10.4%, Textiles by 22.5%. Metals by 15.8%, and Miscellaneous Items by 12.8%.

The following table shows the course of available wholesale price changes since 1913:-

1913 1922

1924

1931

1932

1933

Foodstuffs

73.6

100.0 106.1

144.3

126.5

113.4

Textiles

55.1

100.0

112.5

135.8

125.2

97.0

Metals

63.2

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100.0

102.3

140.9

128.1

107.8

Miscellaneous

...

64.2

100.0

106.3

125.4

· 109.7

95.7

Average of all Articles 64.0

100.0

106.8

136.6

122.4

103.5

INDIVIDUAL AVERAGES

(1922-100)

Foodstuffs

1924

1931

1932

1933

Beans

.100.3

130.9

118.6

101.3

Beef

.116.9

218.0

152.3

173.2

Eggs

94.5

131.1

104.5

96.7

Flour (Wheat)

96.4

114.0

98.5

85.7

Salt Fish......

87.6

125.9

150.0

153.4

Fruits, Fresh

123.4

306.7

274.5

250.1

Lard

.106.9

138.0

114.7

101.2

Milk (Condensed)

92.2

185.2

176.8

170.9

Mutton

.114.3

173.9

132.9

139.4

Onions

.103.1

141.1

104.1

81.6

Peanut Oil

.111.6

117.1

122.1

101.7

Pork

103.6

133.8

119.8

109.6

Potatoes

93.4

109.0

109.6

86.2

Poultry

.111.0

175.2

147.7

117.0

Rice (Broken)

112.3

126.1

118.3

88.9

Rice (White)

.110.2

133.2

113.5

93.5

Sugar (Raw)

.135.8

99.0

86.6

78.7

Vegetables (Dried etc.)........

96.3

61.3

56.8

45.2

Vermicelli

106.5

120.2

101.7

80.3

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