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AT-CKASB RETAIL PRICES OP ALL THE CHIEF STAPLE* ARTICLES OF USE
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OE CONSUMPTION IN NICOSIA TOWN.
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Average Retail Price
throughout
the year.
Barley. ...
lieaos. Broad
Beans French ...
Kee* ... ...
Beer . ...
Brandy
Bread. Wheaten...
Batter, Fresh ...
;, Salt
Cattle, Horned ...
Cheese* ...
CoflTee- ... :..
Cotton' ... -.:.
Cowpeas
Eggs
Figs
Fish
Flour, Wheaten...
Goata - ...
Grapes ...
Hones ...
Kerosene Oil
Lemons ...
Maize
Milk • .:;
Mutton ...
Oaca . ...
Olive Oil
Olives
Onions ...
Oranges...
1'eiw ....
Porlc
Potatoes •-.
Raisins ...
Rice
3alt
Sesame ...
Sheep
Soap, Common .-
5u#ar
Swine
Tea.
Tobacco ...
Vetches ...
Wheat
Wine
per kile
per oke
per bottle
. per oke
each
... * . per oke
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...
,,
...
„
each
per oke
...
»,
...
,,
each
... per oke
each
per tin of 11 \ okea
per 1,000
per oke
per kile
per oke
per 1,000
per oke
each |
per oka;
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1
each |
per lb.|
per oke
per kile
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Der oke
Maximum
Retail Phoa
Mini-mam
Retail Price.
.cp.
tr.
I
1
4
4
1
1
10
3
IT
1 1 12
— 1
— 10
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5
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6
3
3s
3
20
20
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2.
2
6
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7
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5
44
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24
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1
1
4
4
1
2
15
4
o
15 !
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3
4
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cp.
3 ,
6
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8
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3
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13
3
3
3
2
1
3
3
4
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o
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I
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of
1-
NOT».—1
Cyprus oke—2.8 ft.
STAPLE FOODS AND AVERAGE COST OF
A N D OF T H E INDIGENOUS
I C y p r u s kile—I English bushel.
LIVING OF THE WAGE-EARNING CLASSES
POPULATION GENERALLY.
List ol Staple foods.
Bread
Cheese (native)
Olives
Olive oil
Dried fish (herrings, sardines)
Eggs
Bulgur and rice
Beans and Lentils
Potatoes
Beetroots
Colocaaa
Pumpkins
Tomatoes
Onions
Fresh vegetables
Wild vegetables
Fruit ~ ~' ' • "
Salt
Average price
s. cp.
If per oke
1 6 „
5
1 34 „
c each
* M
! 2.V per oke
: 24 „
:
H „
:
i
•'
! O
• 1
•*
"
i 1 „
u „
1 ,.
, \ per bundle
;
Free
1 "per oke
3* „
Average cost of living of a family of five persons. [
T h e 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 £31 a yeax
in villages.
The average wages earned in a year by husband
and wife together amount to £46.0.0 in towns and
to £37.0.0 in villages.