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AVERAGE EETAIL PRICES OF ALL THE CHIEF STAPLE ARTICLES OF USE
OR CONSUMPTION IN NICOSIA TOWN.
Average Retail Price
throughout
the rear.
Maximum
Retail Price.
Minimum
Retail Price.
JBarlev
Beans, Broad
Beans French
Beef
Beer
Brandj ...
.Bread. Wheaten.
Butter, Freeh
,, Salt
> Cattle, Horned
• Cheese
i Coffee ...
^Cotton ...
•Cowpeas ...
Eggs
Figs
Fish
Flour, Wheaten .
Goats
•Grapes ...
Horses ...
Kerosene Oil
Lemons ...
Maize
Milk
"Mutton ...
•Oats
•Olive Oil
Olives
-Onions ...
•Oranges ...
Peas
Pork
Potatoes ...
Raisins ...
Rice
Salt
. Sesame ...
.Sheep
.Soap, C o m m o n -
Sugar
.Swine
Tea
'Tobacco ...
"Vetches ...
Wheat ...
Wine
per kile-
p«-r oke.
per bottlei
per oke
each |
per oke
each
per oke
each
per oke
each
per tin of 11 _ okes
per *1,000
per oke
per kile
per oke
11
1 ,
1
4
*l
10,
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4
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6
7
44
20
per 1,000
per oke-
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- i 16
1
each
per oke
each i
per lb.
per oke
per kile!
- t
i
per oke
5
1
10
1
41
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ll
34
24
4m
54
15
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2
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9
6
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2
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6
2
6
2
2
3
4
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= i - i i
= 11!
3
3
3
5
3
1
3
3
1
2
3
24
4
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44
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N O T E . — 1 Cvprus oke—2.8 ft.
1 Cjprns kile—1 English bushel.
STAPLE FOODS AND AVERAGE COST OF LTVTNG OF THE WAGE-EARNING CLASSES
AND OF THE INDIGENOUS POPULATION GENERALLY.
List of Staple foods.
Average price. Average cost of living of a fam'ly offivepersons.
Bread
Cheese (native)
Olives
Olive oil
Dried fish (hemnes, sardines)
Eggs
Bulgur and rice
Beans and Lentils
Potatoes
Beetroots
.'"
Colocass
Pumpkins
Tomatoes
Onion 8
Fresh vegetables
Wild vegetables
Fruit
Salt
s. p.
2h per oke
2 H ..
4 „
1 44 »
it each
4
,,
3i) per oke
34 ,,
14
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1 ..
U ..
2
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ti
1 ,,
14
..
\ per bundle
Free
1 per oke
24 M
The average cost of living of a family consisting
of five persons, i.e. husband, wife and three
children, is S.44 a year in towns and £35 a year
in villages.
The average wages earned in a year by husband
and wife together amount to £44.0.0 in towns and
to £35.0.0 in villages.