HOUSEWIVES' COLUMN.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 260, 2 November 1928, Page 11

HOUSEWIVES' COLUMN.

WEEK-END PRICES IN SHOPS

BIG SUPPLIES OF FISH.

PLENTY OF ISLAND FRUIT.

BUTTER AND EGGS UNCHANGED.

Supplies of eggs are still heavy, and as a fair proportion are smaller ones from pullets the price still keeps low. Butter is unchanged in price. The market in London is not quite so firm this week, and a similar position is reported with regard to cheese. Bacon and hams are still selling well, but curers complain that present prices obtainable are too low when compared with the cost of the pigs. Orders for hams for the Christmas trade aTe now being received.

Fruit is very plentiful at the present time. Strawberries are selling at 1/3 per chip. More sunshine is required to bring the strawberries to their best, but the season promises to be a good one. Good supplies of Island fruit are on the market. Pineapples are particularly plentiful at the present time. Californian grapes are now offering at 1/ per lb, which is a low figure for imported fruit. Apples are still selling at low prices, but pears ara now getting scarcer and good dessert sell at 6d per lb. Vegetables are in good supply. New potatoes are now being sent in more freely and prices have eased in consequence. All varieties of fish were in good supply this week. To-day's quotations are:— Butter and Cheese. First grade factory butter, 1/8 per lb; second, 1/7 per lb, each across the counter and one penny per pound extra when booked; farmere' butter, 1/3 to 1/4 per lb; cheese, 1/2 to 1/4 per lb; extra matured, 1/0 per lb; old port 1/8 per lb. ' Eggs. Hen eggs, 1/2 to 1/3 per dozen; duck, 1/1 per dozen. Bacon and Hams. Bacon, in cuts, BJd to 1/2 per lb; prime cuts, 1/3 to 1/5; in raehere, 1/4 to 1/6; whole hams, 1/4 per lb; rashers, 1/8 per lb. Meat. Beef.—Romp steak, 1/2; undercut, 1/4; all beef steak, 8d; skirt eteak, 8d; sirloin, 10d; prime ribe, 7d; wing ribs (three chine bonee), 9d; topside (41b and over), 7d; thick flank, 7d; bolars, 7d; double top rib, 6d; chuck rib, sd; rolled chuck rib, 7d; corned round, 8d; corned brisket (boned), 7d; brisket and flat rib, sd; thin flank, 3d; gravy beef or ehin meat, 6d; minced beef, 6d; tripe, 7d; dripping, 7d; suet, 6d; sausages, 6d; saueage meat, sd; whole shins or legs, 3d; half ehins or legs (thick end), 4d; half ehins or legs (knuckle end), 3d; ox kidneys, 1/; ox tonguee, 8d; ox tails, 8d; whole loins, 9£d; whole rumps, HAd. Mutton.—Leg, »d per lb; leg (shank end, Gib or under), 10d; hindquarter, 9d; forequarter, 7d; shoulder, 7id; shank end of forequarter, 7d; necks, 7jd; loin, 10d; neck and breast, 6d; leg and loin chops, lid; neck chops, 8d; flaps, 4d; cutlete (trimmed), 1/1; eide, 8d; kidneys, 2d each; tongues, 3d; ' sheep'e head (dressed), 6d; sheep's fry, 8d; sheep's brains, 3d.

Spring Lamb.—Forequarters, 1/4 per lb; hindquarters, 1/6 per lb; leg and loin, 1/8 per lb.

Veal.—Fillets, lOd per lb; loins, 8d; shoulders, (id; cutlets and veal steak, lid; chops, 9d; forequarters, sd; rolled veal, Bd.

Pork.—Leg, lOd per lb; loin, lid; foreloin, wit?i blade, 9d; pork chops, 1/; corned hand, 8d; corned belly, IOd; pork sausages, 7d.

Fish. Retail pricee at Auckland: Fresh fillet* tarakihi, 4d each; schnapper, 4d; trevalli, 3d; John Dory, 6d; kingfish, 8d per lb; kippered fillets, 1/ per lb; lemon fiish, 8d per lb; gurnet, 3d each; cream fish, 3d each; mussels, 1/6 per dozen; fresh schnapper, 6d each; fresh tarakiiii, 6d each; trevalli, 4d each; mullet, 6d each; flounder, 4d to 1/ each; hapuka steaks, lid per lb; hapuka fins, 5d per lb; kingfish steaks, 8d per lb; smoked, best tarakihi, 6d each; best schnapper, 8d each; mullet, 7d each; whitebait, 1/3 per carton or 6d glass; tfevalli, 6d each; silver strip, 4d; crayfish, 9d to 2/; oysters, 2/6 per carton; cockles, 3d per dozen; rabbits, 1/ each. Pruit.

Apples: Dessert, 3d to 4d per lb; cookers, 3d to 4d per lb; Canadian apples. 7d per lb. Pears: Dessert, 6d per lb; cookers, 3d per lb. Tomatoes, hothouse 1/8 per lb, Island outdoor grown 4d to 6<l per lb; tree tomatoes, lOd per lb; passion fruit, 1/6 per dozen; Valencia oranges, 1/ to 1/6 per dozen; lemons, lOd to 1/rt per dozen, according to quality; mandarins, 4d to 1/ per dozen, according to size; Sydney oranges, 8 for 1/; Island oranges, 1/ per dozen; large Island oranges, 4 for 1/; bananas, 4d per lb; pineapples, 9d to 1/6 each, according to size, grapes, 1/ per lb; strawberries, 1/3 per chip; rhubarb, 3d per bundle.

Vegetables. New potatoes, small ljd to 2d per lb, larger 3d to 4d per lb; old potatoes, 71b for 1/; swedes, 121b for 1/; kumaras, 4d per lb; pumpkin, 2d to 4d per lb; cabbage, 2d to 6d each; cauliflowers, 6d to lOd each; lettuce, Id, 2d and 3d each; hothouse cucumbers, Bd, lOd and 1/ each; outdoor grown cucumbers, 2d to 6d each; green peas, 6d per lb; hothouse French beans, 1/ per lb; broad beans (very small), 6d per lb; spring onions, raddish, beet, turnips, parsnips, leeks, carrots, spinnach, and water cress, all ljd per bunch.