The present and near future time is the most extraordinary in the annals of our generation. So swiftly have momentous events succeeded each other, so packed is the story of the present with incident and breathless change, that the very pace of history has been accelerated.
On all sides, time is speeding with wings of turmoil and unrest, and our one time colossal disputes are dwarfed by the upheaval of The European Pandemonium.
THE INDUSTRIAL PROBLEM.
The effect of this is international strife penetrates everywhere, its omnipresent aspect permeates all industrial concerns, and necessitates the reduction of output, thus minimising the labour of our community.
The local anthracite coal trade has been badly affected, and so far as we have been able to ascertain, the following is the position :-
Ammanford Colliery
Tirydail Colliery
Wernos Colliery
Rhos Colliery
Park Colliery
Pantyffynnon Colliery
Emlyn Colliery
Bettws Red Vein Colliery |
Working .
Working (part-time).
Idle.
Idle.
Idle.
Idle.
Idle.
Idle. |
OFFICIAL FOOD PRICES.
It will not be necessary to guard and escort our food supplies by troops with fixed bayonets, and no deplorable disturbances will be provoked, for the government have taken energetic steps in fixing a maximum tariff, and every good housewife, whole policy must be Waste not, want not, would do wisely to remember the following prices, and if she would be charged more, then she may communicate her grievance to the Commercial Department, Board of Trade Offices, Gwydr House, Whitehall-street, London, S.W. Do not use a stamp, but put O.H.M.S. in the corner of the envelope, and the government will do the rest.
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PER LB |
Granulated sugar
Lump sugar
Butter
Cheese (Colonial)
Lard (American)
Margarine
Bacon (Continental) (by the side)
Bacon (British) (by the side) |
0. 3¾
0. 4¼
1. 6
0. 9½
0. 8
0. 10
1. 2
1. 3 |
