HOUSEWIVES' COLUMN.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 156, 5 July 1927, Page 11

HOUSEWIVES' COLUMN.

EGGS 2/2 PER DOZEN. OYSTERS 2/6 PER BOTTLE. Supplies of both lieu and duck eggs jre now coming in freely, and both lines are selling at 2/2 per dozen on the average, though some places still have fresh hen eggs marked at 2/6 per dozen. Butter and Cheese. Prices ..for butter show no change since Friday. Superfine, factory. 1/S per Id, cash across the counter; first grade, 1/7, and second grade, 1/6. Farmer's butter, 1/3 to 1/5 per Ib. Cheese is selling retail at 1/2 to 1/4 per Ib, and 1/6 for extra matured makes. Bacon and Hams. Quotations for bacon and hams are as follow: —Bacon, 9*d to 1/5 per Ib for cats, and 1/4 to 1/5 for rashers. Whole hams are otfereii retail at 1/3 to 1/4 per Ib, and for rashers 1/8 to 1/9 per Ib is still asked. Meat. There is no change in the retail prices or meat since last report. Quotations are: —■ Beef: Sirloin. Sd per Ib, rib, 6d; rolled • beef, 4d; steak, sd; and rump steak, 1/ per fb. Veal: Fillets, 10d per Ib; cutlets, lid. Lamb: Leg, 1/2 per Ib; hindquarter, IV; loin. 10d; forequarter. 7d; and. chops, I/per Ib. Mutton: Leg. Sd per Ib: loin, 9d; ehoulder. 6d; and chops, 1/ per Ib. Sausages: Pork, Sd per Ib; beef, 6d per Ib. Cooked Meat: Corned beef, 1/3 per Ib; pressed beef, 1/2; roast mutton, 1/6; pressed tongue, 2/2; and roast pork, 2/3 to 2/6 per Ib. Fish. Oysters are now selling at 2/6 per bottle, with good steady demand. Crayx fish are easier in price, selling from 6d to 8d per Ib, according to size. Other quotations are: — Smoked: Blue cod, 1/6 per Ib; schnapper, lid per Ib; terakihi, 8d per Ib; trevalli, 4d per Ib; mullet, 9d per Ib; fcarraeouta. 6d per Ib; strips, 9d per Ib; kippered fillets, 1/ per Ib. Fresh: Canadian salmon. 1/6 per Ib; echnapper, 6d per lb>; terakihi, 44d per Ib; hapuka, 1/ per Ib; kingfish and moki, 9d per Ib; skate, 6d per Ib; mournou, tid per Ib; butterfish, 6d per Ib; frost fish, 9d per Ib; gurnard, four to six for 1/; garfish, 6d per dozen; flounder, 4d to 10d eaeh. Rabbits sell at l/.each. ; Fruit. ■ Quotations for all kinds of fruit show ""■■. ao r change since Friday's report. .Apples. <•}- sert, 3d to Ib; cooking, 3d u. per H>;. pears, dessert, 5d per Ib, and. cooking, 3d per Ib. ■ Hothouse tomatoes are getting scarce, and tie price is now 1/6 per Ib. Hotfcraee grapes selTat - 3/ "per~n>, "and Sydney outdoor at 1/ per Ib. - Bananas are in good supply at 3d to ~ 4i '-pic Ib. Cape gooseberries sell at 6d - - per Ib; passion fruit, 8d pep dozen; and I' rhnjmrb, 4d, 5d and 6d per handle.* temoß6 are 8 for I/; American oranges, 3/fpk: J/; Island oranges, 1/6 t? 2/ per . ,; orangeSf ; per i t &**;^lajtfinandarin«,:s fiSrjs for 1/j i*«Js&IS&ZI; per-do«n; and^in^^^^ Y?a-.Z ■ " ' ■' ■* ' - " ■ ." Sltope are well supplied, wili vegetaLles, prices 'being as follow-:—:Pota-toes, 101b for 1/; swedes and onions are Id per Ib; kumaras, 2d per Ib; pumpkin, Id to lid per Ib; cabbage, 3d to 6d each; cauliflower, 6d to 1/3 each; lettuce, 2Jd to 3d each; celery, 3d to 6d per head;, turnip, carrot, beet-and parsnip, Id pei* tench.