HOUSEWIVES' COLUMN.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 74, 28 March 1929, Page 11

HOUSEWIVES' COLUMN.

WEEK-END PRICES IN SHOPS.

EGGS CONTINUE DEAR

MUSHROOMS PLENTIFUL

APPLES STILL CHEAP,

I- Demand has been good for eggs and also 1 fish on account of the Lenten fast. Supplies of eggs have been rather on the short side. Fair quantities of fish have come to hand this week. Large quantities of mushrooms are now coming to hand, and prices rule from as low as 6d to 1/ • per lb. Tomatoes continue in good supply. , althroujh the season is getting on. Golden Queen peaches are still offering, best samples being marked up to 2/ per dozen. Apples are in very heavy supply, and good dessert sell from 3d to 4d er lb, while fine Cox's Orange Pippin sell at 5d per lb. Bananas are in good supply, and sell at 4d per lb. The glut of cucumbers is about over, but prices are still low. Some very fine heads of celery are now being sent in. Butter and cheese, bacon and hams, and meat show no change in prices this week. Quotations to-day are:— Eggs. Duck 2/8, hen, 2/9 to 2/10 per dozen. Butter an 3 Cheese. Superfine factory butter, 1/8 per lb, J cash across the counter; Id extra when booked. First grade factory butter, 1/7 per lb; second grade, 1/6; farmers' butter, 1/3 to 1/5 per lb, according to quality. Cheese, mild, 1/2 to 1/4 per lb; extra matured, 1/6 per lb; old port, 1/8 per lb. Pixie-Uno cheese, 6oz cartons 1/ each, or cuts from 61b loaves, 1/6 per lb. Bacon and Hams. Bacon, in cuts, B%d to 1/1 per lb: prime cuts, 1/3 to 1/5 per lb; rashers, 1/5 to 1/6 per lb; whole hams, 1/2 per lb; rashers, 1/8 to 1/9 per lb. Meat. Beef—Rump steak, 1/2; undercut, 1/4; all beef steak, 8d; skirt steak, 8d; sirloin, lOd; prime ribs, 7d; wing ribs, (three chine bones), 9d; topside (4lb and over), 7d; thick fiank, 7d; bolars, 7d; double top rib, 6d; chuck rib, sd; rolled chuck rib, 7d; corned round, 8d; corned brisket meat show no change in price this week, (boned), 7d; brisket and flat rib, sd; thin flank, 3d; gravy beef or shin meat, 6d; minced beef, 6d; tripe, 7d: dripping, 7d; suet, 6d: sausages, 6d; sausage meat, sd; whole shins or legs. 3d; hair sins or legs (thick end), 4d; halt shins or legs (knuckle end), 3d; ox kidneys, 1. ; ox tongues, 10, ox tails, 8d; whole loins, 9'.2d. Mutton.—Leg, 9d per lb; leg (shank) end), 61b or under. lOd; hindquarter. 9d; forequarter, 7d; shoulder, ; shank 6end of forequarter, 7d; necks, Ibid; loin chops, lid; neck chops. 8d: flaps, 4d; cutlets (trimmed), 1 1: side, 8d; kidneys. 2d each; tongues, 3d; sheep's head (dressedJ, 6d; sheep's fry. 8d; sheep's brains. 3d. Spring Lamb.— 1/ per lb;_hindquarters, 1 3; leg, 1 4; loin, 13. eal.—Fillets, lOd per lb; loins, 8d; shoulders. 6d; cutlets and veal steak, lid; chops, 9d; forequarters, sd; rolled veal, Bd. Pork—Leg, 9d per lb; loin, lOd; foreloin, with blade, 8d; pork chops, lid; corned hand, 7d; corned belly, 9d; pork sausages, 7d. Fish. Retail prices at Auckland: Fresh fillets, tarakihi. 3d; schnapper, 3d to 4d; trevalli, 3d; John Dory, 5d and 6d; kingfish, 4d; kippered fillets, 1/ per lb; lemon fish, 8d; roe, 1/6; gurnet and cream fish, 3d each; mussels, 1/6 per dozen; fresh schnapper, 4d to each; fresh tarakihi, 3&d; trevalli, mullet, 6d; flounder, 8d to 1/; hapuka steaks, 1/; hapuka fins, 6d; kingfish steaks, 6d; smoked tarakihi, 8d; smoked schnapper, 9d; smoked roes, 2/6; smoked mullet, 9d; smoked trevalli, 7d; silver strip, 8d; crayfish, 6d to lOd, according to size; and fresh rabbits, 1/ each. Fruit. Apples.—Dessert, 3d to 4d per lb; Cox Orange Pippin, sd; cooking apples, 51b for 1/. Pears.—Dessert, 3d to 4d per lb; cookers, 2d to 3d; quinces, 3d per lb; i tomatoes, 4d per lb: bananas. 4d to 5d per lb; figs, 8d per dozen; watermelon, 2d per lb; rock melon, 3d to 6d: Cape gooseberries, 7d per lb; passion fruit, 6d per dozen; best Golden Queen peaches, 2/ per dozen; cooking peaches, 1 to 16 per dozen; lemons, 1/ to 1 6 per dozen; oranges, 4 to 5 for 1, ; rhubarb, 4J per bundle; hothouse grapes. 16 to 2' per lb; Ie Kauwhata grapes, Sd to 9d per lb; Sydney grapes, 8d per lb. Vegetables. Potatoes, 81 b for 1"; swedes, 121b for 1 ; onions, 10~lb lor 1/; pickling ofiions, 2d per lb; kumaras. 81b for 1 ; pumpkin, 51b for 6d; cucumbers, 3d to 4d each; celery, 4d to 6d per head; mushrooms, (id to 1' per lb; green peas, 4d to 7d per lb, according to quality; beans, 5d to 6d per lb; lettuce. 2d to 3d each: cabbage, 4d to lOd each: cauliflower, 4d to 1 ' eachcarrots, spring onions, leeks, parsnips, beet and turnip, Id per bunch.