HOUSEWIVES' COLUMN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 170, 20 July 1934, Page 3

HOUSEWIVES' COLUMN.

WEEK-END PRICES IN SHOPS. EGGS A PENNY CHEAPER. FRUIT IN BIG SUP-PLY. The shops are well supplied with pine.? from Australia, a big shipment having come to hand this week. New season's plums and nectarines also arrived from California, and some bananas from the Islands. Fine large Mangaia Island oranges are offered at 2/ per dozen, and other Island oranges at slightly under that price. Apples and pears are still cheap. Outdoor tomatoes are now over for the season. Hothouse tomatoes are in good supply, also both varieties of tree tomatoes. Bananas are fairly cheap just now, selling at from 2d to 3d per lb. Most vegetables are in heavy supply, and on the average low prices rule this winter. New potatoes sell according to size from 2d to 4d per lb. .Southern potatoes are in heavy supply, and can be got at 141b for 1/. A lot of sprouted onions have been sent in. but there arc; also good sound ones offering. Celery has been in better demand since the cold weather set in.

' Eggs ate coming forward in larger quantities, and the price for both hen and duck eased one penny per dozen. Quotations are: — Eggs. First grade hen eggs, 1/6 to 1/8 per dozen; duck, 1/5 per dozen. Bacon and Hams. Bacon, in cuts, 8d to lid per lb; rasher?. 1/2; whole hams, lid per lb; rashers, 1/3 per lb. Butter and Cheese. First grade factory butter, 1/1 per lb, cash across the counter, Id extra when booked; second grade, 1/ per lb: farmers' butter, lOd per lb. Cheese: Mild, full cream, 9d to 1/ per lb; medium, matured, 1/2 to 1/3 per lb. Meat. (Cash at shop.) Beef.—Bump steak, lOd per lb; undercut, 1/1; beef steak, 6d; stewing steak, od; sirloin, 7d; prime ribs, sd; prime ribs (boned and rolled), 7d; wing ribs (three chine bones), Cd; topside (41b and over), 4d; thick flank, 4d; bolars, 4d; double top rib, 4d; chuck rib, 3d; rolled back rib, sd; corned round, 6d: corned brisket (boned), 4d; brisket and flat rib, 3d; thin flank, 2d; gravy beef or shin meat, 4d; minced beef, 4d; tripe, sd; dripping, 4d; suet, 4d; sausages, sd; sausage meat, 4d; whole shins or legs. l%d; half shins or legs (thick end), 2d: half shins or legs (knuckle end), l%d; ox kiduevs, lOd; ox tongues, 7d; ox tails, jod: whole loins, 6dj whole rumps, Bd.

Mutton. —Sides, 6d; whole legs, 7V£d; cut legs, 8d; leg, shank end (61b or under), 8V&d; hindquarter, 6Msd; forequarter, sd; shoulder, 6d; shank end of forequarter, sV£d; necks, 5%d; loin, 7d; middle loin chops,' 9d; leg and rib chops, 8d; neck chops (best end), 7d; stc ving chops, 6d; flaps, 2d; cutlets (trimmed), lOd; kidneys. 2d each; tongues, 2d each; sheep's head (dressed), 5d each; sheep's fry, 6d each; sheep's brains. 2d each. Veal.—Fillets, 7d; loins, sd; shoulder, 4d; cutlets and veal steak, 8d; chops, Gd; forequarters, 3d: rolled veal. sd. Pork.—Leg, 9d lb; loin. 9d: foreloin with blade, 7d; pork chops, lOd; corned hand, 7d; corned beliy, 9d; pork sausages, 7d. Fruit. Dessert apples, 3d to 4d per lb; cookers, 2d per lb; Winter Cole and Winter Nelis pears, 3d to 4d ncr lb; Island oranges, 2/ per dozen; mandarins, 1/(5 to 2/ dozen; lemons, 1/ per dozen; bananas, 2d to 3d per lb; hothouse tomatoes. 1/ per lb; pines, 6d to 1/ each; Queen pines, 1/ to 1/6; California]! plums, 8d to 1/ petlb; passion fruit. 1/ per dozen; tree tomatoes, 4d to 6d per lb; Californian nectarines, .1/6 per lb. Vegetables. Old potatoes, 141b for 1/; local newpotatoes, round 3d lb; kidneys. 4d lb; onions, 2d lb; cabbage, 3d to (id each; lettuce, 2d to 3d each; cauliflower, 2d to 6d each; carrots, parsnips, beet, spinach, leeks, radish, VAd to 2d per bundle: pumpkins, 2d per lb; kumaras, 2d per lb; celery, 4d to 8d per bundle; Brussels sprouts, 8d per lb.