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WHOLESALE PRICE CHANGES.
Wholesale prices in the Colony during the year 1935 recorded decreases of 14.9% as compared with 1934, 24.7% as compared with 1943, 36.4% as compared with 1932, 43.0% as compared with 1931, 27.1% as compared with 1924 and 22.1% as compared with the buse period of 1929.
As compared with 1934 there were decreases in 1935 in each of the four groups of commodities, the index number of Foodstuffs declining 9.4%, Textiles 13.6%, Metals and Minerals 18.1%, and Miscellaneous Items 18.3%.
The following table shows the course of local wholesale price changes since 1913:-
Groups.
foodstuffs
kxtiles
:
Metale
·
Iscellaneous
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Average..
1922 = 100.
1913.
1924.
1931.
1932.
1933.
1934.
1935
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:
73.6
106.1
144.8
120.5
118.4
94.3
85.4
55.1
112.5
135.8
125.2
97.0
85.9
74.2
:
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63.2
102.3
140.9
128.1
107.8
97.4
79.8
64.2
106.3
125.4
109.7
95.7
88.5
72.3
M
04.0
100.8
136.6
122.4
103.5
91.5
77.9
:
Foodstuffs.
Liga...
kur (Wheat)...
mit Fish
Iruits, Fresh
:
INDIVIDUAL AVERAGES.
1922 = 100.
1924.
1931
1932
1933.
1934.
1935
100.3
130.9
119.6
101.3
$3.0
78.7
116.9
218.0
152.3
173.2
121.3
128.0
94.5
131.1
104.5
06.7
88.0
78.0
96 4
114.0
98.5
85.7
75.8
66.3
87.8
125.9
150.0
158.4
137.1
118.9
123 4
306.7
274 5
250.1
233.0
201.5
:
106.9
138 0
114.7
101.2
78.5
82.7
92.2
185.2
176.8
170.9
137.9
111.1
A
114.8
173.9
132.9
130.4
143.2
116.7
[03.]
141.1
104 1
91.6
63 9
48. A
:
1116
117 1
122.1
101.7
73.1
847
103.6
198.8
119.8
109.6
87.3
77.3
:
93.4
109 0
100 6
80.2
71.8
60.4
111.0
175 2
147.7
117.0
89.8
80.1
***
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112.9
126.1
118.3
88.0
66.1
68 6
:
110.2
139.2
113 3
93.5
72.2
71.4
M
135.8
gn
86.0
78.7
60 5
49 3
96.3
04.3
56.8
45.2
45.4
40 6
108.5
120 2
101 7
$18
66.0
63.8
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lik (Condensed}
bulton
Jojom.
Fraut Oil
Ark
Totatoes
ultry
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Kupur (Raw)
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