HOUSEWIVES' COLUMN.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 164, 13 July 1928, Page 10

HOUSEWIVES' COLUMN.

WEEK-END PRICES IN SHOPS. EGGS SHOW FURTHER DECLINE. SHORT SUPPLIES OF FISH. BIG STOCKS OF APPLES. Eggs are still down in price, and some shops now quote both hen and duck at 2/ per dozen. Other establishments ask from twopence to fourpnece per dozen more for hen eggs. Supplies of eggs came in more freely this week.

Prices of butter show no alteration this week. Although there has been an advance in price of New Zealand cheese in London, no increase has been made in the retail rates locally. The explanation is that the higher prices now ruling in London is for what is practically last season's make, as the factories here have been closed down until the new season opens. Local merchants are therefore drawing on stocks purchased before the advance of the market in England.

Bacon and hams are meeting with good sale at the reduction in price noted last report.

Very heavy stocks of apples are still held in Auckland and retail prices are low in order to increase sales, as the cool stores require to be cleared before November, as new season's Canadian will be offering on this maTket about that time. Good supplies of mandarins and oranges are still on the market, and prices are reasonable.

The oyster season opened this week, fair supplies being sent in. The whitebait season is still late, only small •{uantities having come to hand so far. The boisterous weather this week rendered supplies of fish much smaller than usual. Quotations to-day are:— Butter and Cheese. First-grade factory butter, 1/9 per lb retail, cash across counter, and secondgrade 1/8. Farmers' butter, 1/6 per lb. Cheese, 1/2 to 1/4 per lb; extra matured, 1/6; old port, 1/8 per lb. Ejgi. Guaranteed fresh hen eggs, 2/ to 2/4 per dozen; duck eggs, 2/ per dozen. Bacon and Hams. Bacon, in cuts, 10£ d to 1/5 per lb; in rashers, 1/4 to 1/6; whole hams, 1/5 per lb; rashers, 1/9 per lb. Meat. Beef.—Sirloin, 9d per lb; prime rib, 6d; wing rib, 8d; steak, 6d; rump steak, lid; corned round, 7d; corned brisket, 5Jd; gravy beef, 4d per lb. Veal: Fillets, lOd; cutlets, lid. Beef sausage, 6d. Mutton.—Legs, 9d per lb; forequarters, 6d; shoulders, Td; loin. lOd; loin chops, lid; neck chops, 8d per lb. Pork.—Leg, lOd; loin, lid; chops, 1/; corned belly, lOd; sausages, 8d per lb. Cooked Meat.—Corned beef, 1/3 per lb; pressed beef, 1/2 per lb; roast mutton, 1/6 per lb; pressed tongue, 2/2 per lb; roast pork, 2/ per lb; pressed ham and tongue, 2/ per lb. Fish. Fresh Fillets.—Taraklhi (large), 7d, fillets, 4d each; schnapper, 4d; trevalli, 3d; John Dory, 6d; kingfish, 4d; kippered fillets, 1/ per lb; lemon fish, Sd; gurnard, 3d each; cream fish, 2d; mussels, 1/6 per dozen; fresh schnapper, from 4d each; fresh trevalli, 4d; mullet, od; flounder, 3d to lOd; hapuka steaks, lOd per lb; hapuka fins, od; kingfish steaks, 7d; rnoki steak, Sd; froetfish steaks, 6d; smoked tarakihi, from 4d each; best schnapper, from 6d; mullet. 6d; trevalli, 6d; silver strip, 6d; crayfish, 6d to 1/6: oysters, 2/6 per carton; rabbits, lOd each. Fruit. Apples.- Dessert, 3d to 4d per lb, cooking apples, 2d to 3d per lb; pears, dessert, 4d to 5d per lb; cooking pears, 3d to 4d; hothouse tomatoes, lOd to 1/ per lb; Island tomatoes, Sd per lb; tree tomatoes, Sd per lb; bananas, 3d to 4d per lb; lemons, 1/6 to 2/ per dozen: mandarins, 1/ to 1/6 per dozen, according to size; large mandarins, 2/ per dozen; Navel oranges, 2/ per dozen; Poormans, 2/ per dozen; Island oranges, lOd to 1/ per dozen; large oranges, 1/6 to 2/; Australian grapes, 1/ to 1/2 per lb; hothouse grapes, 2/6 to 3/6 per lb; Cape gooseberries. lOd per lb, and rhubarb, 3d per bundle. Vegetables. Small new potatoes, 5d to 6d per lb; | old southern potatoes, 91b for 1/; : onions, 3d per lb; kumaras, 3d per lb; pumpkin, 3d per lb; citron melon, 121b for 1/; celery, 3d to 6d per head; cabbage, 3d to 7d each; cauliflowers, 6d to 1/ each; lettuce, 2d to 3d each; parsnip, lid per bunch; carrots, beet, turnip and spring onions, Id per bunch. - |