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AVERAGE RETAIL PRICES OF ALL THE CHIEF STAPLE ARTICLES UF
OR CONSUMPTION IN NICOSIA TOWN.
USE
Average Retail Price
throughout
the year.
Maximum
Retail Price.
Minimi* ru
Retail Price.
Barley ...
Beans, Broad
Beans French .
Beef
Beer
Brandy ...
Bread, Wheaten.
Butter, Fresh
„ Salt
Cattle, Horned .
Cheese ...
Coffee
Cotton ...
Cowpeas
Eggs
Figs
Fish
Flour, Wheaten..
Goats
Grapes ...
Horses ...
Kerosene Oil
Lemons ...
Maize
Milk
Mutton ...
Oats
Olive OU
Olives
Onions .--
Oranges ...
Peas
Pork
Potatoes ...
Raisins ...
Rice
Salt
Sesame ...
Sheep
Soap, Common
Sugar
Swine
Tea
Tobacco ...
Tetches ...
Wheat ...
Wine
STAPLE
per kile
per oke
li
• »
per bottle
per oke
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each
per oke
•»
»»
»t
each
per oke
each
per oke
each
per tin of 11 ^ okes
per 1,000
per oke
per kile
per oke
per 1,000
per oke
•»
•i
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V
each
per oke
each
per 11>.
per oke
per kile
per oke
cp.
- 10
10
4
14
— 10
4,
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2
8
2
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15
2.
H
4
6
1
5
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o
6
H
3
A
20
1
1
1
6
6
4
2
15
4 — —
1 _i
1
IS
! 1
1
4
4
*
21
6
1 .
— 1
15
1
1
2
5
6
NOTB.—1 Cyprus oke—2.8 lb.
FOODS AND AVERAGE COST
A N D OF THE INDIGEN
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3
6
6
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6
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6
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2
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8
2
4
3
4
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4
6
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5
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9
4
4
2
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1
5
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10
1
1 Cypras kiie—1 English bushel,
OF LIVING OF THE WAGE-EARNING
OUS POPULATION GENERALLY.
CLASSES
cp*
6
4
3
2
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6
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2^r
4
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3
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List of Staple foods.
Average price. | Average cost of living of a family of five persons-
Bread
Cheese (native)
Olives
Olive oil
Dried fish (herrings, sardines)
Eggs
Bulgur and rice
Beans and Lentils
Potatoes
7
.
Beetroots
Colocasia
Pumpkins
Tomatoes
Onions
Fresh vegetables
Wild vegetables
Fruit
Salt
s.cp.
2 per oke
9 •*>
mm
,,
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1 1 ,,
I each
TiT
»>
3 per oke
1
1
2
2
o
mm
1
J per bundle
Free
1 per oke
3* ,,
The average cost of living of a family consisting
of five persons, i. e., husband, wife and three
children, is £44 a year in towns and £33 a year
in villages.
The average wages earned by husband and wife
in a year together amount to £35 in towns and
to £34 in villages.