LOCAL FOOD PRICES.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 18, 22 January 1926, Page 4

LOCAL FOOD PRICES.

AT THE MARTS. A GLUT OF POTATOES. EGGS CHEAPER. During the present week potatoes have been rushed into the salerooms, and have completely overtaken the demand. Thousands of householders are digging from their own little plot's just now, and the demand is at its lowest. A few salts are being made on the basis of 1/6 to :"»,' per sugar bag. Onions are becoming more plentiful, and the price has cased to Id to 1 1-Sd per lb. Other selling rates Lave been cabbages, 1/ to 7, (> per sack; beans, Id to lJ.d per lb; peas, 2d to 2Jd; lettuce, 1/ to 4/0 per ease; pumpkins, 3d to 2/ each; vegetable marrows, 3/ to 6/ per dozen; cucumbers,! 3d to 2 ' per dozen; rhubarb, 1/6 to 2/6 per dozen lots; celery, 2/ to 3/G per bundle; carrots, beet, parsnips, and turnips, Sd to 1/5 per dozen lots. Fruit. Strawberry supplies are easing off, and prices Lave ranged from 1/ to 1/6 per chip. A shipment of Sydney cherries came to Land, mostly in bad order, and realised from 4/ to 13/ per 121b case, according to condition. Tomatoes Lave not been quite so plentiful the last few days, and prices are well maintained at 4d to aid per lb for No. 1 outdoor, and 3d to 4d for seconds. Hothouse Gd to Bd. Apples have been more plentiful, and Lave sold as follow: Astraeban, best coloured, 8/ to 12/ per case; small, 3/ to 5/. Gravenstein, best coloured, 8/ to 10/; small, 4/ to 5/; cookers, 4/6 to 0/0. Other selling prices Lave been: Plums: Angelina, 10/ to 13/; Early Rivers and Orleans, 0/ to 10/. Burbank, 2/9 to 5/. Apricots: Best, 10/ to 10/; others, 0/ to 10/. Bon Chretien pears, 9/ to 11/. Sydney oranges, 22/ to 30/; pines, 21/ to 24/; passions, 14/ to 18/; lemons (local), best. 10/ to 14/; others, 6/ to 8/; Italian, 1(5/ to 18/. Hothouse grapes, 1/3 to 1/9 per lb. Pish. Supplies of fresh fish during the week Lave been quite equal to the demand, which is not so keen during the hot weather. Mussels are again available. Retail prices are: Fresh fillets, schnapper and trevalli, 3d to 4d each; John Dory, 1/ per lb; kingfish, 10d per lb; kippered fillets, 1/ per lb; lemon fish, Sd per lb; roe, 1/0 per lb; gurnet, cream fish and mussels, 2/ per dozen; fresh schnapper and trevalli, (id to Sd each; mullet, 9d to 1/G; flounder, hapuka and kingflsll, 1/ per lb; mussels, 1/6 per bottle. Smoked fisli: Schnapper, 10d per lb; roe, 2/ per lb; mullet, 9d; trevalli, 8d ; kippers, 8d per pair; silver strip, 9d per lb; crayfish, 10d to 1/ per lb; rabbits, 1/ each. * Poultry. There was a fair entry of poultry at the auction marts to-day, but as is usual at this season of the year prices were low:—Young heavy cockerels realised from 4/6 to 5/ each, light 1/ to 2/3; roosters, 1/6 to 2/6; heavy hens 3/ to 3/C, light, 1/0 to 2/; ducks, 'young, heavy, 3/ to 5/; old, 1/3 to 1/6. Butter ana Cheese. The retail prices for factory butter this week are as.follow:—Superfine factory) 1/9; first grade, 1/8; second grade, 1/7 per lb; farmers' butter, 1/4 to 1/5. Cheese remains at 1/2 to 1/4 per lb retail, And 1/6 for extra choice matured brands. Eggs In Fair Supply. As usual when there is plenty of fruit available, there is less demand for eggs. Supplies of eggs are ample at the present time, and the price, retail, is 1/9 per dozen. At the auction marts hen eggs are realising from 1/8 to 1/BA, and diick eggs 1/7 per dozen. Bacon and Hams. Quotations for bacon and hams this week, retail, are as follow:—Bacon, in cuts, IOJd to 1/6 per lb; in rashers, 1/5 to 1/7; whole hams, 1/2 to 1/3; in rashers, 1/8 to 1/9. FAILURE OF "HOBART NEWS." Our attention has been drawn to an omission in a, paragraph quoted from "The Bulletin," in which it was stated tliat "The Hobart News" was Baid to Lave lost £30,000 over a period of IS montLs in attempting to establish an evening newspaper, and Hobart was left with only one paper, "TLe 2>lereury," published in tLe morning. The sentence to which attention is drawn is as follows:—"Just when it began Hobart's biggest slump in a quarter of a century started too, and business houses would not spend money on advertising." While there may have been a period of depression starting in 1924, there is no suggestion that conditions in Tasmania are not normal at the present time. The population of Hobart is given by the latest abstract of Aus.tralian statistics ai 56,607.