HOUSEWIVES' COLUMN.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 150, 28 June 1927, Page 11

HOUSEWIVES' COLUMN.

EGGS IN BETTER SUPPLY.

FRUIT STIXIt CHEAP.

BUTTER PRICES UNALTERED.

There has been comparatively few changes in retail prices since Friday last. Eggs are coming in more freely, and the price to-day is 2/6 per dozen for both hen and duck. Butter and Cheese. The following prices still rule for these lines:—Superfine, factory, 1/8 per lb, cash across the counter; first grade, 1/7, and second grade, 1/6. Farmer's butter, 1/3 to 1/5 per lb. Cheese is selling retail at 1/2 to 1/4 per lb, and 1/6 for extra matured makes. Bacon and Hams. As usual during the colder weather, bacon is selling well.—Bacon 9Jd to 1/5 per lb for cuts, and 1/4 to 1/5 for rashers. Whole hams are offered retail at 1/3 to 1/4 per lb; and for rashers 1/8 to 1/9 per lb is still asked. Meat. Prices for meat are as follow:— Beef: Sirloin, 8d per lb, rib, 6d; rolled beef, 4d; steak, sd; and rump steak, 1/ per lb. Veal: Fillets, lOd per lb; cutlets, lid. Lamb: Leg, 1/2 per lb; hindquarter, 1/; loin, lOd; forequarter, 7d; and chops, 1/ per lb. Mutton: Leg 8d per lb; loin, 9d; shoulder, 6d; and chops, 1/ per lb. Sausages: Pork, 8d per lb; beef, 6d per lb. Cooked meat: Corned beef, 1/8 per lb; pressed beef, 1/2; roast mutton, 1/6; pressed tongue, 2/2; and roast pork, 2/3 to 2/6 per lb. Fish. Shops are well suppplied with Ish. Prices are as follow:— Smoked: Blue cod, 1/6 per lb; schnapfler, 10d; terakihi, 8d per lb; trevalli, 4<l per lb; mil-let, 9d per lb; barracouta, 6d per lb; stripes, 9d per lb; kippered fillets, 1/ per lb;, crayfish, lOu per lb. Fresh: Canadian salmon, 1/6 per lb; 5d per lb; terakihi, 4jd pe? lb; hapuk~, 1/ per lb; kingfish and moki, 9d per lb; skate, 6d per lb; moumou, 6d per lb; butterfish, 6d per lb; frost fish, 9d per lb; gurnard, four to six for I/; 'garfish, 6d per doz.-, flounder, 4d to 10d each. Oysters, 3/ per bottle. Rabbits sell at a 1/ each. Fruit. Supplies of all kinds of seasonable fruits are good at the present time. 7we samples of apples and pears at very reasonable prices. Dessert apples rule from 3a to "Si per, lb, according to variety. Cooking apples .re 3d to 4d per lb. Dessert pears are 4d to 5d per lb, and cooking, 3d to 4d. Hothouse tomatoes sell at 1/4 per lb. Island at 1/; passion fruit are 9d to 1/ per dozen as supplies are now falling off. American oranges sell at 3/ per dozen; Island oranges 1/6 to 2/; poorman oranges, small, 1/6, and large, 2/ per dozen; Sydney mandarins, small 18 for 1/, ; larger, 1/ perdozen; Island mandarine fire to six for 1/; and lemons eight to p^t^br. l/r pineapples are 1/6 to 2/ each;~ Cape Gooseberries 8d per lb; Sydney grapes 1/ per lbs hothouse grapes 2/6; rhubarb 4d to 6d per bunch. Vegetables. Fair supplies of vegetables are being sent in. Cabbage sell from 3d to 4d each; cauliflower 6d to 1/6, according i to size; lettuce, 2d to 3d each;-celery, I 3d.to Sd per head; carrot, parsnip, beet, • and turnips, one penny per bunch. I Potatoes sell at 101b for 1/; L oniouL 121b fo: 1/; kumaras 61b for 1/; I and pumpkin sells at l*d to 2d per lb.