Fresh Food Prices
p. 62 · Read in the full issue
Letter to the Editor.
ALTHOUGH Port Moresby residents extend congratulations to Rabaul on the coming competition between refriger ating companies, the prices quoted by our Rabaul correspondent (Nov. P.I.M.) leave them unmoved.
In Port Moresby, where a monopoly regulates the prices of fresh foods, we are charged 1/6 per pound for sirloin roast and 1/7 for rump steak; 1/2 will buy a pound of mutton, either leg or loin, a pound of beef sausages or a pound of corned beef. Brawn, for those who have the courage to face the unknown, is 1/6 a pound, and boiled ham 3/-.
Apples, whether the hard green bullets that pass as “cookers” or the pathetically deformed windfalls whose hectic colour ing alone qualifies them for the dessert class, are 2/6 a dozen, irrespective of size.
Apart from potatoes and onions, vege tables appear to be rated as taxable luxuries. Even the humble swede is glorified by a price of 7d per pound, and nothing else is procurable at less than 10d. A decent sized cabbage costs between five and six shillings.
I am, etc.,
Vitamins.
Port Moresby, 26/12/1934.
Mr. R. D. Blandy, Assistant to the Re sident Commissioner of the New Hebrides has been appointed Acting British Resi dent Commissioner while Mr. G. A. Joy is on six months’ furlough. Mr. R. J.
Keegan is now acting as Assistant to the Resident. Commissioner.