HOUSEWIVES' COLUMN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 167, 17 July 1931, Page 10

HOUSEWIVES' COLUMN.

WEEK-END PRICES IN SHOPS. EGGS DOWN AGAIN. BIG SUPPLIES OF FRUIT. Once again the price of eggs has declined, the quotation to-day being 1/7 per dozen, which is an unusually low figure for this time of the year. The comparative mildness of the weather this winter is shown by the fact that in the middle of July a few mushrooms are to be seen in fruiterers' windows. Catches of fish by trawler* nave been small since last report, but seine .fishermen secured good supplies. Mold and kingfisli are 2d per lb cheaper this week. Whitebait is selling at 6d per glass. Butter, cheese, bacon and hams are all unchanged in price this week. Supplies of fruit are fairly heavy for this time of the year, oranges and mandarins being lower in price than usual in July. Mandarins are offered at from 10 up to 18 for 1/, according to size, and Island oranges can be got at 9 to 12 for 1/. Local marmalade oranges are marked Sd per dozen, and lemons can be got at 8 for New season's fruit from California dropped in price this week, apricots being marked 8d per lb, and plums from 6d to lOd per lb, according to variety. Bananas are in good supply, and sell at.from 3d to 4d per lb. Pines are marked from 9d to 1/3 each, according to size. Gnavas can be got now at 6d per lb, but for Cape gooseberries lOd is asked. Apples on the average sell at 4d per lb for best desert varieties. Pigeonettes are now on the market at that price, which is also asked for Delicious and Stunners. Some fine Golden Pippins are now offering. Cooking pears are not too plentiful, and the retail price is now 4d per lb. More new potatoes are now coming to hand, with the result that the price is now 3d to 4d per lb. Cabbage, cauliflower and lettuce are now more plentiful, and sell at slightly lower prices. Quotations to-day are ae follow: — Eggs. Fresh hen eggs. 1/7 per dozen; duck eggs, 1/6. Bacon and Hams. Bacon, in cuts, 8d to 1/ per lb; rasher*, 1/2; whole hams, 1/ per lb; rashers. 1/C per lb. Butter and Cheese. First grade factory butter, 1/4 tier lb cash across the counter, Id extra when booked; second grade. 1/3 per lb; farmers , t/2 per lb. Cheese, mild, full cream. 9(1 to 1/ per lb; medium matured, 1/2 to 1/4 per lb; extra old port. 1/6 per lb. Meat. (Cash at Shops.) Beef.—Rump eteak, 1/ per lb; undercut, 1/2; all beef eteak, 6d; skirt stea*, 6d; sirloin, 8d; prime ribs, sd; prime ribs (boned and rolled), 7d; wing ribs (3 chine bones), 7d; topside (41b and over), 3d; thick flank, sd; bolars, sd; double W-μ rib, sd; chuck rib, 3d; rolled back rib, 6d; corned round, 7d; corned brieuft (boned), sd; brisket and flat rib, 3d; thin flank, 2d; gravy beef or shin meat. 3d: minced beef, 4d; tripe; 6d; dripping, od: suet, 4d; sausages, sd ;- sausage meat, 4a; whole ehins or legs, Id; half shins or ifus (thick end), 2d; half shins or legs (kmijkic end). Id: ox kidneys. 1/; ox tongues, "d; ox tails, 6d; whole loins, 7d; whole rumps. Mutton.—Whole leg, 6d; leg, shank end (61b or under), 7d; hindquarter, oYsd; forequarter, 3Vfed; ehoulder, sd; shank end of forequarter, id; necks, sd; loin, 6d; neck and breast, 3Vzd; kg and loin chops, 7d; neck chops, 3d; flaps. 2d; cutlets (trimmed), IOd; side, 3%d; kidneys, 2d each; tongues, 2d: sheep's ( head (dressed), 6d; eheep's fry, Sd; sheep's brains, 3d. Veal.—Fillets, 8d; loins, 6d; shoulder, 4d; cutjets and vead steak, lid; chops, 7d; forequarters, 3d; rolled veal, 6d. Pork.—Leg. 9d; loin, 9d; forlorn with blade, 7d; pork chops, IOd; coined hand, 6d; corned belly, 9d; pork sausages. 7d. Fish. Snapper, whole 6d per lb, trimmed 8d per lb. smoked lOd per lb, ekinnecl dllere lOd per lb; tarakibi, whole 4d, smoked <d, kippered fillets 1/1 per lb; trevalli, whole 3d per lb, smoked 6d; John Dory, whole Bd, (Diets 1/2 per lb; mullet, wnole 6d, smoked lOd per lb; llounder, 1/ per lb. dabs lOd per lb; lemon fish, 6d per lb; silver strip, smoked 8d per lb: hapuka, steaks 1/ per lb, smoked wings 8d per lb; moki, steaks 4d per lb, smoked 6d; kingfish, steaks 4d per lb, smoked 6d; blue cod, smoked 1/6 per lb; gurnard, whole, 3d per lb; barraeouta. whole 6d per lb, smoked 8d per lb; frost fish, whole 6d per lb; hake, whole 6d per lb; hake kippers, 1/ per lb; Scotch kippere, 1/ per pair; crayfish, up to 21b lOd. 21b to 3Milb Sd, 3%1b to slb Cd, over 51b 2/ each; smoked roes, 2/ per lb; mussels, fresh. 1/6 per dozen, pickled 1/6 per bottle; rabbits, lOd each. 1/6 per pair; hares, 1/6 each. Fruit. Apples: Winceap, 3d and 4d per lb; cooking apples, 3d and 4d per lb. Winter Cole penrs, 4d and 5d per lb; cooking pears, 4d per lb. Passion fruit: 8d to lOd per dozen. Tomatoes: Island. 9d per lb; hothouse, lOd to 1/2 per lb; Ores Colmaii, 3/ to 3/6 per lb. Australian grapes: lOd to 1/ per lb. Bananas: 3d to 4d per lb. Local lemons: 1/6 per dozen. Cook Island oranges: 6, 8 and 10 for 1/. Sydney pines: 1/3 to 1/6 ench. Australian navels, 6, 8 and 10 for 1/. Mandarins: Od to 1/6 per dozen. Vegetables. Potatoes, 101b and 121b for 1/; swedes, Id per lb; pumpkin, 2d per lb; kumaras, 3d per lb; marrows, 4d to 8d each; beans hothouse, 1/6 per lb; onions, 2d and 2%d per lb; celery, 4d to lOd each; lettuce, 2d to 4d each; cabbage, 3d to Sd each; cauliflower, 4d to 8d each;, carrot, parsnip, radish, spinach, turnip, beetroot, leeks, spring, onions, U4d per bunch; Brussel sprouts, 6d to 8d per lb; rhubarb, 5d per bunch.