HOUSEWIVES' COLUMN.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 103, 3 May 1929, Page 11

HOUSEWIVES' COLUMN.

MEAT DEARER. FRUIT GROWING SCARCER. Unices the housewife is careful, tonight's shopping will probably cost more than it did last week. Veal and pork lias gone mp a penny per lb, though fish remains as it was. Bananas are very scarce this week, find are, therefore, slightly dearer, while quinces and green peas are now almost unprocurable. Tomatoes are also past their most plentiful season. To-day's quotations are: — Eggs. Fresh hen ec<rs, 2/10 to 3/ per doz.; preserved eggs, 2/4 to 2/6 per dozen; duck eggs, 2/0 per dozen. Butter and Cheese. Superfine factory butter, 1/8 per 11), 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 Gib 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, l/o to 1/6 per lb; whole hams, 1/2 per lb; rashers, 1/7 per lb; whole, boneless ham, 1/4 per lb. Fruit. Apples, dessert, 3d to 5d per lb; cooking, 3d and 4d per lb; pears, dessert, 3d to 4d per lb; cooking. 51b for 1/; tomatoes, 4d and 5d per lb, extra fine, 5d to 6d per lb; bananas, 6d per lb; lemons, eight and ten for 1/; oranges, four and five for 1/; Cape gooseberries, 6d to 7d per lb; rhubarb, 5d per bundle; watermelon, lMsd to 2d per lb; citron melon, 161b for 1/; grape fruit, 5d each; tree tomatoes, 5d per lb; passion fruit, 6d ito lOd per dozen; hothouse grapes, 2/ to 2/6 per lb; Te Kau•whata grapes, 8d to lOd per lb; persimmons, 2d each; extra large ditto, 2/G per dozen. Vegetables. Potatoes, Southern, 101b for 1/; local grown, 10lb 'to 121b for 1/; swedes, 81b for 1/; onions, 101b for 1/; pickling onions, iVzd ;per lb; kumaras, 101b for 1,/; pumpkin, 41b to 51b for Gd; cucumbers, 4d to 6d each; marrows, 3d to 6d; lettuce, Id to 3d each; cabbage, 4d to 8d each; cauliflowers, 4d to 1/2 each, according to size; celery, dessert, 5d to Cd per head; cooking celery, Id to 2d per head; French beans, 4d to 5d per lb; other beans, 3d per lb; spring onions, beetroot, carrots, turnips, Id per 'bunch. Meat. Beef. —Rump steaic, 1/2; undercut, 1/4; all beef steak, 8d; skirt steak, 8d; sirloin.. lOd; prime ribs, 7d; wing ribs (three cliine bones), 9d; topside (4lb and over), 7d; thick flank, 7d; bolars, 7d; double top rib, Cd; chuck rib, sd; rolled chuck lib, 7d; corned round, 8d; corned brisket meat no change in price this week (boned), 7d; brisket and flat rib, sd; thin flank, 3d; gravy beef or shin meat, Cd; minced beef, Cd; tripe, 7d; dripping, 7d; suet, Gd; sausages, Gd; sausage meat, sd; whole shins or legs, 3d; half shins or legs (thick end), 4d; half shins or legs [knuckle end), 3d; ox kidneys, 1/; ox tongues, lOd; ox tails, 8d; whole loins, 9%d. Mutton.—Leg, 9d per lb; leg (shank end), 61b or under, lOd; hindquarter, 9d; forequarter, 7d; shoulder, 7%d; shanL end of forequarter, 7d; necks, 7Vkl; loii? chops, 9d; forequarters, sd; rolled veal, lets (trimmed). 1 '1: side, Sd; kidneys, 2d each; tongues, 3d; sheep's head (dress?/!), 6d; sheep's fry, 8d; sheep's brains, 3d. Spring Lamb.—Forequarters, 1/ per lb; hindquarters, 1/3; leg, 1/4; loin, 1/3. Veal. —Fillets, lid per lb; loins, 9d; shoulders, 7d; cutlets and veal steak, 1/; chops, lOd; forequarters, 6d; rolled veal, 9d. Pork. —Leg,. lOd per lb; loin, lid; foreloin, with blade, 9d; pork chops, 1/; corned hand, 8d; corned belly, lOcl; pork sausages, Bd. Fish. Retail prices at Auckland; Fresh fillets, tarakihi, 3 and 4 per 1/; sclmapper, 3 and 4 per 1/; trevalli, 5 and 6 per 1/; John Dory, 1/2 per lb; kingfish, 6d; kippered fillets, 1/2; lemon fish, 6d; roe, 2/6; gurnet and cream fish, 6 and 8 per 1/; mussels, 1/6 per dozen; fresh sclmapper, 4VzA per lb; fresh tarakihi, 3%d; trevalli, 3%d; mullet, 6d; flounder, 1/ to 1/3; hapuka steaks, 1/; hapuka wings, Cd; kingfish steaks, Cd; smoked tarakihi, Set"; smoked sclmapper, lOd; smoked roes, 2/G; smoked mullet, 9d; smoked trevalli, 7d; silver strip, Gd; crayfish, Gd to 1/ per lb; and fresh rabbits, lOd each.