Is he further aware that it is quite fantastic to pay a tax of half-a-crown on a tumbler, which probably cost twopence?
It referred to livers, lights, tripe, guts and other things, and fixed prices for all those extraordinary commodities ranging from twopence to four shillings.
It began with nine-tenths of twopence and in a few months rose to nine-tenths of five pence.
There is this quite deplorable business of paying twopence on the pier.
Taking the average, the equivalent of twopence is being rolled up for the benefit of all the insurers.
We have all these twopence-halfpenny privileges which have been brought into operation in connection with the dockyard system of the country.
They are extremely poor people and pennies and twopences are very valuable to them and the country is rich enough to do without them.
Fortunately, millions of miners in the past have put into union funds their halfpennies, pennies and twopences.
