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AVERAGE* RETAIL PRICES OF ALL THE CHIEF STAPLE ARTICLES OF USB
OR CONSUMPTION IN NICOSIA TOWN. ]
Average Retail Price
throughout
the jear.
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Retail Price.
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Retail Price.
Barley ...
Beans, Broad
Beans Preach
Beef
Beet*
Brandy ...
Bread, Wheaten.
Batter, Freeh
* Salt
Cattle, Horned
Coffee -.•...
Cotton:;... .: .
Cowpeas
Egg*-
Fig* .... ;..
Fish
Floor, Wheaten.
GoaU
Grapes ...
Horses ...
Kerosene Oil
Lemons ...
Maize
Milk _. ...
Mutton ...
Oata
Olive Oil
Olives
Ouions ...
Oranges...
Peas
Pork
Potatoes ...
Raisins ...
Rica
Salt
Sesame . -.
Sheep
Soap, Common
Sugar
Swine
Tea
Tobacco ...
Vetches ...
Wheat ...
Wine
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peroke
per bottle
per oke
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NOT«.—1
Cyprua oke-—2.8 lb.
STAPLE FOODS AND AVERAGE COST OF
A N D OF T H E INDIGENOUS
1 Cypras kile—1 English bushel.
LIVING OF THE WAGE-EARNING CLASSES
POPULATION GENERALLY.
List of Staple foods.
Average price, j Average cost of living of a family offivepersons.
Bread
\
Cheese (native)
j 1
Olives
Olive oil
' 1
Dried fish (herrings, sardines) |
Bulgnr and rice
Beans and Lentils
Potatoes
Beetroots
"Colocaas
Pumpkins
Tomatoes
Onions
-Fresh -vegetables-•
Wild vegetables
Fruit
Salt
cp.
1J per oke
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3 per oke
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1 per oke
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The average cost of living of a family consisting
of five persons, i.e., husband, wife and three \
children, is £40 a year in towns and £30 a year!
in villages.
The average wages earned in a year by husband
and wife together amount to £43.10.0 in towns and
to £31.10.0 in villages.
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