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AVERAGE RETAIL PRICES.
DOMESTIC Servants :—
Employed by Chinese,
.$ 7.00 to $20.00 per month.
Employed by Europeans,... Gardeners,.
15.00 to 10,00
帅
13.00 to 30,00
******
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With free lodging, and, with Chinese employers, generally free bourd,
Note:-The rates of pay of Government employees are much the same as those of a similar
entegory in private employ.
Transport coolies,
Cont coolies,
Rickslis coolies,
..$0.60 to $0.70 per day.
0.55
0.60 to 0.70
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A. STAPLE FOODSTUFFS, ETC., OF WAGE EARNING CLASSES.
1939.
Rice (3rd Grade),
Fresh fish,
"
Salt fish,..............................................................................
17
Beef,
1938. 7.3 cents per catty 24.4 ***.....25.2 .37.6
7. cents par catty
28.4
"
22
ל
23.0
14
D)
"J
31.9
*
כג
#
Park,.
---- 49.7
Oil,
.22.2
Firewood,...
.10.0
enllies
54.4 +2 23.8 *1 10,0
#
*
5.6 catries
»
"
B. OTHER FOODSTUFFS, ETC.
$ c.
C.
Wheaten Flour,
Brend,
"
per bag of 50 lbs.
3.40
per .
0.10 to
Horued Cattle (large, for slaughter),.
per bend.
75,00 to
Sheep,
26.00
Goats, (for slaughter),....
13.00
Swine,
per picul.
36,00
Milk,
per pint.
.30
Butter, Fresh, supply very limited,
per l
1.05
++
Salt,
#
Cheese,
0.85
*
"
Rice,
Coffee, (raw),
Tea,
Sugar,
Sult (Table),
Wine,
Brandy,
Beer,....
Tobacco (Tins),
H
(Cakes),
Beef, (native)...............
+
(Australian frozen),
Mutton, (native), ......
»
(Australian frozen),
Pork, (native),.......................
(Australian frozen),
0.29
to
£ 2 2 2 2 3 2 2 2 2
to
to
to
4.00 0.20 85.00 34.00 17.00
to
to
-10,00 .39
to
1.30
to
1.80
0.65
FE
0.42
to
1.00
#
0.45 to
0.32
"
0.52 to
1.00
}}
0.40 to
0.55
None
*
0.0%
to
'0.10
#+
0.40
躜
2
0,60
1.60
to
2.45
"}
"J
in 2-lb. jur.
per dozen quarts.
#
»
0.15 10 0.80 to 33.60 to 31.20 to
0.16
0.90
150.00
210.00
piots.
3.40 to
5.00
per lb.
4.00 to
10.00
3,90 to
5.25
IMPROVEMENTS IN AGRICULTure and ManuFACTURES † INTRODUCED THIS YEAR.
Nil.
† See V 1 and 2.
PROGRESS OF ANY IMPROVEMENTS PREVIOUSLY REPORTED,
Nil.
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