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Singapore

Item

Vegetables:

Bean Sprout

Beetroots, Chinese

Cabbage Malaya

Carrots Chinese

Potatoes, Sweet

Spinach

Tomatoes, Malaya

Fruit:

Bananas (cheapest) Oranges, us.

Curry Stuff's:

Chillies, Red

Sin pore

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1

Price

reference

Unit

Sing.

H.K.S

Hong Long

Price

Item

Unit

HZ

Vegetables:

Dept. of Statistics,

Kati

.15

.28

Bean Sprout

Kati

24

= =

.54

1.01

Beetroots

**

.15

.50

.94

12

.59

1.10

Cabbage, hite Carrots

HT

.31

37

.12

.2

.22

Potatoes Sweet

ti

.20

.37

.11

Spinach

.62

1.16

.12

Tontoes

*

.24

Fruit:

10

.30

.56

Bananas

10

Kati

.72

.50

1.35

Oranges, California

Kati

1.33

Cury Stuffs:

-

Kati

1.09

2.04

Chillies, Green

.40

.92

Bread

Chillies, Dried Onions (large)

Onions (small) Siam Pepper, Black

Pepper, hie

sunuries:

Finned Butter (Mus.)

.50

.91%

.22

.41

Chillies, Red Chillies, Green Chillies, Tried Onions (large)

Kati

.35

it

.35

Ti

#

.44

.82

Onions (spring)

R

1.60

2.99

Pepper, Black

1.80

3.37

Pepper, Thite

* 2 2 7

.14

it

.18

Sundries:

do

ab.

25

47

Bread

16 ozs.

1.45

2.71

finned Butter

Controlled

12 ozs.

1.00

1.87

Timod Butter (Lus.)

Tinned Butter

Hice List,Je

lb.

16 ozs.

12 ozs.

.60 2.00-2.60

1.90

Wheat Flour (Lus.)

rest.02

Kati

25

47

Wheat Flour

Ice

Statistics,

1be

.015

.028

Lard

Lunga ore

Kati

1.37

2.56

Icc

Lard

Rice, White

.30

56

Rice, White

Kati lb.

Kati

it

Salt

*3

08

15

Salt

帽

Sugar

.32

.60

Sugar

Sugar (open market)

Thite 1st Quality No. 26

Tea, Ceylon "Gold Lear" Dvaltine

Ovaltine

Sugar (white)

.50

.93

Open Market

lb.

2.35

4.39

Controlled Pric Tist, June

#1

1.90

3.55

Tea, Rickshaw Brand

Ovaltine

1b.

1.10

2.06

Ovaltine

13.

4.20

1

3.20

11.

2.10

X

X

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